#MooseJaw

[vintagecamping]

A couple weary travellers hitch a ride outside Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. Canada

1972

[therealmastermindtv]

I feel like I’ve either seen this or posted it myself but

I didn’t realise that moosejaw was like an actual place until I looked it up

The only reason I looked it up was because I thought it made zero sense for the writers to make a place up for just one of the characters

[otakunoculture]

A Passage Beyond Fortune and Chinese Way of Life in Moosejaw. An Interview with Weiye Su.

There's lots of facts that needs to be clarified, and Weiye Su's excellent #documentary for @thenfb shows what's important regarding Moosejaw's underground tunnels, Chinese way of life and much more! #anthropology Read on at:

Now available to stream on TheNFB.ca Weiye Su is a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker with a goal, and that’s to dispel the myths concerning the underground tunnels that exist underneath the city of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. What’s offered is a falsehood. After his family relocated here many years ago, what he wanted to discover about the past concerning fellow Chinese as this country was being built is…

[lame-town]

The Moosejaw, Frisco, CO

[nickgerlich]

Playing Chess

If business seems like one big chess match, opponents carefully making their moves and hoping to go in for the king, you would be right. It’s a battle of wits for sure, but also involves millions of dollars and thousands of employees. And it’s not for the faint of heart.

Yesterday’s news brought evidence of the marathon chess match that never seems to stop. There’s always someone making a move, followed by a counter-move. And when the sun goes down, you just hope your company’s position is better than when the sun came up.

Like with Walmart, Target, and Dick’s, companies that all made headlines, and it all boils down to one thing: e-commerce.

Let’s see now. Walmart sold its sporting goods company Moosejaw to Dick’s for $51 million, and Target is spending $100 million to build more “sortation” hubs around the country to facilitate faster, more efficient online order fulfillment. Moosejaw is primarily online, although there are a dozen BAM stores, and is a nice fit for expansion plans at Dick’s. Remember, the pandemic saw many more people start participating in health and fitness activities, and Dick’s plans to keep banking on that trend.



As for Walmart, it has been shedding or shuttering assets the last few years, and Moosejaw, which it acquired in 2017, is just the most recent. It sold ModCloth, an online women’s clothing retailer, in 2019, and Shoes.com in 2020. Furthermore, it also shut down Jet.com that same year. And all this at a time when Walmart has supposedly been doubling down on e-commerce. It still, however, owns Bonobos, an online men’s shop, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are looking for a buyer for that as well.

Target, on the other hand, has had much better focus the past few years, unhindered by false starts and incompatible assets. And although it sees retail sales in general softening this year, as well as a slowdown in e-commerce growth rates, it is still bullish on the modality. If the new emphasis works, I can easily see them building more of these sortation centers, and fewer BAM stores. Think ghost kitchens and dark groceries.

Walmart, as it turns out, is right-sizing and trying to become as lean as possible. If you recall, they are working on enhancing their in-store experience, all the while forecasting—like Target—tough retail sledding for at least the coming year.

Dick’s, though, may just be the sleeper in all of this. They are the biggest sporting goods retailer in the US, with 854 stores and sales of about $10 billion. While that pales compares to Walmart ($575 billion) and Target ($106 billion), it’s impressive enough to put them in the Fortune 500. They’re a niche retailer to be fair, but an impressive one at that.



Moosejaw, which shares a name with a southern Saskatchewan city, is indeed a nice fit for their new owners’ growth plans. Dick’s has made its fortunes primarily in the BAM arena, and Moosejaw allows it to make a big splash online. It’s not going to be an easy swim, though, because Target, Walmart, and, of course, Amazon, also sell a lot of sporting goods online.

Walmart’s divestitures mark a sharp 180 from its thinking only five years ago, when it knew it wanted—and needed—to have a better e-commerce presence. The company had foundered for decades—yes, decades—in the wake of Amazon’s juggernaut. Walmart simply had too much BAM weight to allow for any online thinking, even though it sought to. It’s just that cobbling together a portfolio of highly disparate assets was not the way to do it. Only since COVID have they started to make sense online, although there is still room for improvement.

Target, of course, is not without its own blemishes. It started out in the late-1990s, and did so poorly that it actually hired Amazon to run its entire e-commerce operations for several years. Amazon also ran Borders Books and Toys’R’Us in the online world. At least Target survived, because those other two have sailed off the edge of the earth. Target learned from Amazon, and then had a second go at it, much more successfully this time.



Meanwhile, the chess match continues, a match with many players, many dimensions, many subtleties. Who gets the king is yet to be determined, but you can bet your last rook it won’t be a bloodless battle. These things take time and patience, and each move must be calculated. 



Here’s hoping the wits don’t run out.

Dr “Happy To Be A Spectator“ Gerlich

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[pinatas18]

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[prestonplt]

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[tiger-balm]

Sometimes I check on our other wcj24 kids to see how theyre doing and I'm reminded that yeah they went there bc they're the best players in the league right now 😭

[katerinapetrova]

TEMPERANCE BRENNAN WANDA MOOSEJAW → BONES S06E23: The Change in The Game

[swordofsun]

S1 of due South is great. Wacky cop procedural featuring a Mountie who thought Moosejaw was too big a city and a hardened Chicago cop. With a deaf wolf that the mountie can understand. But look at the fish out of water/buddy cop/cultural misunderstandings abound police procedural. Also a ghost! For no reason and with no explanation. Cop shenanigans! An actual real psychic!

And, now, I have reached Victoria's Secret part 1.

[ohcaptains]

smoke and mirrors

synopsis. jess finds subtle ways to let everyone know you’re hers. 

an. back on my jess bullshit. though to be honest, i never really left. here’s something short and sweet. apologies if you’re not in the aloto fandom, mostly because it’s good and you’re missing out on great telly !

warnings. ‘hiding’ ones sexuality and mentions of homophobia. not beta’d.

It all started when she saw you hanging with the Danvers’ eldest son. Had stepped out of the grocer with a fresh pack of smokes, and her first drag was ruined from the sight of you walking into the diner with his arm slung over your shoulder.

Rage had ripped through her, a living, breathing thing. It fuelled her, sparking a desire to stalk over there, rip his arm from you and then slug him one in the face. Feel the pop of his nose from under her knuckle, then see the blood start to pour. Yet she stayed rooted in her spot. Never dared to cross that line. 

She dreamt about it later that night, instead. 

Got into bed and imagined beating him senseless, then pulling you into her and planting a kiss on your pretty lips, victorious. She knew it came from an odd sense of masculinity that she’d aspired to but was never allowed to achieve.

 I want everyone to know that you’re mine, she’d whispered into your ear a couple of days later, after you’d explained that your mother had set up the little arrangement. Jess had traced the line of your nose. Bent over you, covering your naked body with hers and whispered, want to take you out and show you off. 

It was bittersweet. It could never happen – certainly not in her hometown of Moosejaw, anyhow.

So, she got creative. Got desperate, more like. Started leaving her smokes in your jacket pocket. Her cap in your bedroom. Started depositing little bits of herself in your life, so that others could see that you were hers, and that she was there, and she wasn’t moving a fucking muscle. Gum packets, receipts, her favourite soda that you hated.

“You left these in my room again,” you spit, throwing her smokes at her as you climb into her truck. Jess catches the packet, waiting for you to turn to her in mock impression – like you always did when she showed off her skills – yet you don’t grace her with your eyes.

“You gotta be more careful, Jess,” you tut, glancing out of the window. Face snarled together, frustrated – Jess sees it in the way you wring your hands together. She licks her lips. Tries to be nonchalant about it all, even if her heart is slamming against her chest. She knows. She knows. She knows about my game. “Just say they’re yours.” Your head whips around, and Jess gets a whiff of your perfume. “You think my Mother would let me smoke?” “They’re good for you,” she shrugs, pushing the half-empty packet into her skirt pocket, in front of the new one. This decision of hers to fill you up with her things was getting costly. “I don’t think doing anything as often as you smoke is good for you.” Jess smiles, thinking that there was a flirtatious joke in there somewhere. She doesn’t say it, though. Knows you’re pissed, and it would just deepen the fact. So, she licks her lips and watches you furiously buckle up. Tries to find a response that won’t earn her the silent treatment. “The man on the radio said so,” she counters, and you roll your eyes, looking at her with a disappointed huff. Her face collapses – said the wrong thing. A horrible thing, it seems, as your eyes go cold – busy with a memory. You shake your head at her. “Man on the radio says a lot of things, things my parents listen to – remember?”

She remembers, of course, how could she not? Getting into your house, your parents were in the living room as the buzz of the radio fluttered through the hallway. The pair of you had stood in the foyer, listening to some preacher spread lies and hatred over the airwaves. Just…leaning against the wall, listening, and watching each other. Saying everything that needed to be said, without uttering a word.

“'m sorry,” Jess mumbles. The word is foreign on her lips, but she withstands the taste anyhow. “I didn’t --” she mutters, scrunching her face up and slinging a hand to the wheel. “—didn’t think.” “Yeah, you didn’t,” you quickly spit, and Jess is filled with such regret that she wants to vomit. The truck is silent until the hears the rustle of your jacket as you shrug.

“Besides, my mother would never believe that I smoke Old Golds…Chesterfields, maybe.” You turn to her, fighting a smile. “Old Gold…now that’s an old man cigarette.” She looks at you – relaxing, slightly. Emotions shifted, said your piece. Jess’ face breaks into a slow smile, and when it reaches her ears – as it always manages to do – she shakes her head at you.

“Damn baby, you’re mean.”

Though she decides she’s going to smoke Chesterfields from now on, to avoid suspicion.

[fairytalesandimaginings]

Georgraphy Poll

since I saw one for Australia. If you are Canadian I will have another poll.

here is the one you can participate in if you are Canadian https://www.tumblr.com/fairytalesandimaginings/747782012876750849/geography-poll?source=share

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

Rockford Peaches as spambot girlies (part 1?)

Carson🧢Catcher 🥧 Wife🍕 Lake👩🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏼Valley📚

Greta 💋First ⚾️Base😉New 💇🏻‍♀️York

Lupe🚬pitcher⚾️Hermano🍻Texas🖕🏻

Jess🦫Moosejaw👖Shortstop💅🏻 Hermano🇨🇦

(Part 2)

[miz-chase]

That Wanda Moosejaw is a prolific writer