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Re:How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry... by bombcar on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:33AM (#36905895)
The most surprising thing about that was how big an online retailer Apple is. I never quite realized that their standardized phones and computers mean I have never bought one in a store, not in the last 20 years …
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Re:How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry... by lotsofpulp on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:12AM (#36906291)
If Costco had an Apple computer in the configuration I wanted, I would buy it from Costco because Costco offers 2 year warranties on computers, whereas buying from Apple would only get you 1 year.

https://concierge.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1001211

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