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BigWill

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Getting closer get your paperwork ready !

Mortgage rates drop again to their LOWEST rates since 2022 !

But let's see what Fed does into 2026 !
 
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BigWill

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There are crowd dispersal methods where tear gas is the last resort ! Something called the wind causes problems outdoors !

The ONE facet necessary is OVERWHELMING numerical superiority !

1. Proper training, It doesn't take 4-5 police to cuff, arrest a rioter !
2. Required equipment. Face shields, extra flex cuffs, PR-24 night sticks, buses to store/transport prisoners.
3. Proper behavior. Never lose your temper, respond as trained.
4. Determination to control the events ! Take charge legally. Make multiple arrests !
5. Numbers. 1 on 1 is NO good ! 4 on 1 is what you want.

Skirmish line faces mob, with face shields and vest/body protection. Advances on mob after legal dispersion orders.
In a complete facing line with PR-24 or other crowd control hand devices ! As the skirmish line advances, anyone that does not retreat or disperse, is enveloped by the line and passed backwards to the restraint Police. Put on ground and handcuffed or flex cuffs by trained Officers. Restrained they are escorted to arrest buses and transported from scene to arrest processing centers !

NJSP end Asbury Park riot in 5 minutes upon arrival of 12 Troopers and Sgt with signed Judge's Order to Disperse !

Trooper's armed with 12 gauge pumps loaded with # 4 buck, SGT with bull horn. He reads the Judge's order over the bull horn.
Warns that if they advance towards the Troops spread in a line across the 4 lanes of the street, the Trooper WILL FIRE !
They advance, SGT gives order to fire skip shot !
FIRE, skip shot ! The front line of the mob is down all wounded below their knees !

Riot over, Sgt later Promoted to Lt.
 
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No surprise. The rubes that post here share fake rage bait daily.

I don't know where you find this stuff but that is a bs post about a bs article. PeakMetrics is an AI company that wants to sell services to companies to manage their social media results. Cracker Barrel didn't lose millions because of Bots, it lost millions because of stupid business decisions, including forcing DEI onto its employees. I'm too lazy to look up their stock price but my guess is it is just fine now that they quickly changed direction. If they hadn't, they would have lost a generation of customers.

As far as Bots, they are an ongoing menace of social media but they don't create the original stupid - people do. I don't use social media for my information but I enjoy reading posts that are creative and/or funny.

ps. here is what PeakMetrics has posted on their website, I think it says hire us.

 

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No surprise. The rubes that post here share fake rage bait daily.

Cracker Barrel is a company based in Tennessee. They have Southern roots. The CEO (Masino) big stop was Mattel, a known woke corporation and worked in California. What she did initially was quite good, which was hire Bain to do a deep dive into Cracker Barrel to see where they could perform better. Bain suggested after that deep dive that the food was middling and the service was slow. What she didn’t do right was a business no-no. She didn’t understand her company’s customers very well. Certainly they needed to add customers, but is isn’t very business-savvy to piss off your current customer base in an attempt to gain more customers.

Where Masino went wrong is she hired a woke global marketing company from San Francisco to make updates. Nobody had a problem with the old man on the Cracker Barrel sign. Driving new customers to a company does not require a complete rebrand. They surely received analytics from Bain on what menu items were the most and least popular, which items were the most inefficient/least ordered and expand on the items that were popular and efficient. Look at how things are made in the back of the house and change that to be more efficient. What had Bain found? Slow service. Being more efficient in the back, makes the service quicker. Nothing stopped them from changing up some of the less popular items on the menu and in their general store for some new things. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and insult your loyal customer base. Be efficient. Keep popular items. Run ads about “we heard you and are working hard to provide better service. We are keeping the foods you love and adding more.” Simple marketing that a globalist marketing company based in San Francisco and a native Ohioan working in woke California didn’t get. At all.

The company that raised its level in the debacle was Steak and Shake. The owner/CEO of Steak and Shake has a 3% ownership in Cracker Barrel. He warned both Masino and Davila (a board member) who owns a marketing firm that focuses on DEI issues, something Cracker Barrels’ main customer demographic dislikes. In fairness to Masino, I believe she did win her seat against the last proxy fight with Biglari (S&S CEO).

Bots accounted for somewhere between 32-37% of amplification of the Cracker Barrel issue. So 63-68% of people who didn’t care for the rebrand were real accounts driving the show. It certainly wasn’t the astroturf you are presenting it as being. BTW, did you know the family of Aunt Jemima were very concerned their history would be forgotten when Quaker Oats removed her imaging from their products? DEI is a loser.
 

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Oh you mean they were getting free healthcare? And that incentivizes people to come and take advantage? We were told this wasn’t happening.

All these cities and states destroyed their budget because of the Biden/Harris border policy.
 

BigWill

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Cracker Barrel is a company based in Tennessee. They have Southern roots. The CEO (Masino) big stop was Mattel, a known woke corporation and worked in California. What she did initially was quite good, which was hire Bain to do a deep dive into Cracker Barrel to see where they could perform better. Bain suggested after that deep dive that the food was middling and the service was slow. What she didn’t do right was a business no-no. She didn’t understand her company’s customers very well. Certainly they needed to add customers, but is isn’t very business-savvy to piss off your current customer base in an attempt to gain more customers.

Where Masino went wrong is she hired a woke global marketing company from San Francisco to make updates. Nobody had a problem with the old man on the Cracker Barrel sign. Driving new customers to a company does not require a complete rebrand. They surely received analytics from Bain on what menu items were the most and least popular, which items were the most inefficient/least ordered and expand on the items that were popular and efficient. Look at how things are made in the back of the house and change that to be more efficient. What had Bain found? Slow service. Being more efficient in the back, makes the service quicker. Nothing stopped them from changing up some of the less popular items on the menu and in their general store for some new things. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and insult your loyal customer base. Be efficient. Keep popular items. Run ads about “we heard you and are working hard to provide better service. We are keeping the foods you love and adding more.” Simple marketing that a globalist marketing company based in San Francisco and a native Ohioan working in woke California didn’t get. At all.

The company that raised its level in the debacle was Steak and Shake. The owner/CEO of Steak and Shake has a 3% ownership in Cracker Barrel. He warned both Masino and Davila (a board member) who owns a marketing firm that focuses on DEI issues, something Cracker Barrels’ main customer demographic dislikes. In fairness to Masino, I believe she did win her seat against the last proxy fight with Biglari (S&S CEO).

Bots accounted for somewhere between 32-37% of amplification of the Cracker Barrel issue. So 63-68% of people who didn’t care for the rebrand were real accounts driving the show. It certainly wasn’t the astroturf you are presenting it as being. BTW, did you know the family of Aunt Jemima were very concerned their history would be forgotten when Quaker Oats removed her imaging from their products? DEI is a loser.
Matel was so stupid under their DEI women head that they paid $ 750,000,000 CASH to the Founder of American Girl !
 

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Cracker Barrel is a company based in Tennessee. They have Southern roots. The CEO (Masino) big stop was Mattel, a known woke corporation and worked in California. What she did initially was quite good, which was hire Bain to do a deep dive into Cracker Barrel to see where they could perform better. Bain suggested after that deep dive that the food was middling and the service was slow. What she didn’t do right was a business no-no. She didn’t understand her company’s customers very well. Certainly they needed to add customers, but is isn’t very business-savvy to piss off your current customer base in an attempt to gain more customers.

Where Masino went wrong is she hired a woke global marketing company from San Francisco to make updates. Nobody had a problem with the old man on the Cracker Barrel sign. Driving new customers to a company does not require a complete rebrand. They surely received analytics from Bain on what menu items were the most and least popular, which items were the most inefficient/least ordered and expand on the items that were popular and efficient. Look at how things are made in the back of the house and change that to be more efficient. What had Bain found? Slow service. Being more efficient in the back, makes the service quicker. Nothing stopped them from changing up some of the less popular items on the menu and in their general store for some new things. You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and insult your loyal customer base. Be efficient. Keep popular items. Run ads about “we heard you and are working hard to provide better service. We are keeping the foods you love and adding more.” Simple marketing that a globalist marketing company based in San Francisco and a native Ohioan working in woke California didn’t get. At all.

The company that raised its level in the debacle was Steak and Shake. The owner/CEO of Steak and Shake has a 3% ownership in Cracker Barrel. He warned both Masino and Davila (a board member) who owns a marketing firm that focuses on DEI issues, something Cracker Barrels’ main customer demographic dislikes. In fairness to Masino, I believe she did win her seat against the last proxy fight with Biglari (S&S CEO).

Bots accounted for somewhere between 32-37% of amplification of the Cracker Barrel issue. So 63-68% of people who didn’t care for the rebrand were real accounts driving the show. It certainly wasn’t the astroturf you are presenting it as being. BTW, did you know the family of Aunt Jemima were very concerned their history would be forgotten when Quaker Oats removed her imaging from their products? DEI is a loser.
The guy addicted to rage bait doesn’t believe he fell for rage bait..