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Many of our friends have been laid off by ailing companies, so we worry that places we love might go under. What's more, it's frustrating to see companies we adore fall to bits while ones that befuddle and bewilder remain safe and sound.
So: This is a great time for the herd to thin, if you will.
Nominate places you'd love to see (local or otherwise) go under and why -- writing "SFist" will only hurt our feelings and have us rushing to take the final Nestea plunge over the Golden Gate Bridge, by the way -- and we'll put the local companies to a vote later this week. (Like, say, Barnes and Noble at the Wharf. Who goes there? We can think of something else we'd love to see there instead.)
Is this super ghoulish? Yes. Will it be fun/informative? Hope so.
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United Airlines
Wells Fargo
GM
7 For All Mankind
Microsoft
PG&E
Ed Hardy
True Religion
Affliction
QVC
HSN
McDonald's
Burger King
Wendy's
Taco Bell
KFC
Hummer
Plumpjack.
GM
Ford
Chrysler
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Halliburton
Also the De Young.
Rainbow Grocery
Yelp. Just go away, please.
What was I thinking?
Zephyr of course
I'd be happy to see the Real Player company disappear ... let's standardize the media players a bit more, okay?
The State of Utah .... yeah, I'm not letting go over Prop 8
American Airlines for its disdain of its customers. Exhibit A: Their "Customer Service" department is no longer accessible by phone.
United Airlines for similarly poor service.
Every predatory bank that issues a credit card from Wilmington, DE.
AT&T for domestic spying.
PG&E for their role in the "energy crisis."
...for starters.
Oh, and locally, Herbivore for their tragi-comically useless "wait staff."
Burts Beez
Why Rainbow Grocery? I just discovered their cheese section. LET THEM LIVE!
Because of their hypocrisy. And I hate hippies.
fizzandpop just hates that Rainbow Grocery gives 10% off to those crazy San Francisco Bike Coalition Members.
anywho...
GM/Ford/Chrysler/WalMart
And the Church of Scientology (though that will never happen)
All of the Shoe Biz(es)
Double Dutch
Beauty Bar
Home Depot
Jerry Bruckheimer
Michael Bay
MTV
The Marina
And I want Rainbow to go because every time I sleep with someone who shops there, they always have "that smell". Like a wet sheep or something.
WalMart because of the evilness.
"...every time I sleep with someone who shops there, they always have 'that smell.'"
i hear that.
seems to me fizz, that keeping Rainbow alive you have a clear cut screening question "Do you, or have you ever, shopped at Rainbow Grocery?" If Rainbow is DOA, you might be fooled by someone who has become a TJ's refugee...
I cant believe no one mentioned american apparel yet
Comcast
Sprint
All-Star Donuts at 5th & Harrison
Yahoo! (admit you suck already and get bought out)
Lush
Cold Stone and / or Marble Slab
CVS drug stores
eHarmony
Hey, I don't smell like wet sheep. I smell like Opium.
Michael Minna and other wildly overpriced mediocre restaurants. Out, out, damned spot.
"Every predatory bank that issues a credit card from Wilmington, DE."
Yatdave: By far the best on this entire list!
Bechtel - pure evil.
Any hedge fund
Blackwater Tactical
Dwell Magazine
The Arena Football League
AOL
SF Weekly
TGIF
Disney
Second Life
Jason Calacanis
Papa Johns
ungrateful fizzandpop: the worker-owned vegetarian co-op constituents put out for you and you still have the gall to complain about their smell.
may all your future sexcapades be artificially-flavored, partially-hydrogenated, hormone-laced and unhealthy.
i'd like to see the Westfield mall go down.
AMD
@roleur that's what I was thinking. Why kill the goose that is providing your golden lays?
Those hippie chicks put-out!
Pizza Hut
Taco Bell
Old Navy
Tiffany's
all this taco bell hate saddens me.
The Marina may live, but its worst out-of-place outposts must die:
Danny Coyle's
Medjool
Viva la Chalupa!
All this hatred for big corporations. Odd. Those big corporations are employing a fairly large amount of people.
Sure they're evil, blah blah blah. But as much as I loathe American cars, if Detroit falls apart, we're fucked.
How about instead of wishing more companies would fall apart and lay off more pepole, why not focus on something else? Something, I dunno, positive? I know, I know, It's a crazy thought. But I figured it can't hurt to throw it out there.
-SquirrelMaster
p.s. All taco bell haters can go diaf. It's delicious and *crosses fingers* it will always be around.
Starbucks
Cafe Gratitude (creep city)
Walgrens and Longs (all their employees are pod people)
Yelp, of course. Populism rarely yields quality.
Abercrombie & Fitch
Sunglass Hut
The Oakland Raiders (or, I guess, just Al Davis)
Carl's Jr.
WalMart, word
GM
PG&E
USPS
Safeway
SFMTA
BART
FDA
USDA
DOE
FCC
Homeland Security
Blackwater
BofA
Microsoft
Pier 1 Imports
Medjool
@travin: USDA/FDA are excellent choices.
@squirrelmaster: perhaps if the big three had spent more time designing fuel efficient/non-hideous cars and demanding single payer healthcare, instead of spending all those lobbying dollars to defeat increased fuel efficiency standards, blaming unions for their trouble, and sending many of their manufacturing jobs overseas, they would elicit more sympathy.
"How about instead of wishing more companies would fall apart and lay off more pepole, why not focus on something else? Something, I dunno, positive? I know, I know, It's a crazy thought. But I figured it can't hurt to throw it out there."
Wow. Go to lets_all_sit_around_and_sing_kumbaya.com. What site do you think this is?
Bluetooth headsets
Curbed SF
Bay Area Bargains on KRON
Denny's now known as New Danny's now known as New Manny's
The Americano patio
Those two Kuleto restaurants on the Embarcadero
The Yorks
Seattle's Best Coffee and Tmobile Hotspots
The dodgers, angels, lakers, clippers, and kings
Fiest
Frank Caliendo
The weekend crowd
Neil Conan
The San Francisco Examiner. And Chronicle for that matter.
Critical Mass
Chris Daly
Pets.com
Those two Kuleto restaurants on the Embarcadero
Were you deeply invested in Palimino?
Amen on Feist and that asshole from Fra*k TV
Citizen Cake.
Hate Elizabeth Faulkner, hate their over-rated and untasty cupcakes and hate that when I went there for breakfast and asked the have whatever-it-was-that-I-ordered served with the egg scrambled rather than fried and was informed by the indifferent waitress "it comes how it comes" - I shit you not. Oh, and the manager confirmed that "it comes how it comes" is indeed the official policy of this shithole.
Bon appetit!
Apple
(There I said it, just bored with them now. The iPhone doesn't cure cancer and well, they're a scoach over priced)
And you have one.
Non-union sex establishments
Denny's now known as New Danny's now known as New Manny's
That's New Minny's, to you. I wish their cardboard signs would go away, too.
Stinkin' Rose...that could disappear and it wouldn't bother me any.
I will never get all the Yelp hatred. Yes, it is full of entitled yuppies bitching about some perceived minor slight, but it's also a very good way to find things even if you ignore the ratings and use it mainly as a value-added Google Local.
I also find it rather interesting that people come here and bitch about Yelp in the same petty, shallow yuppie way that they complain about Yelp reviewers.
I'm surprised nobody said Gothamist yet, so yeah, let's add them to the list. ;)
NOPA
Wishing I had thought of the FrankTV guy. DVRs were invented for commercials like his.
monsato
halliburton
bechtel
bofa
genentech
chevron-texaco
lockheed martin
oh and donut world and happy cafe. can we get some decent places open 24 hours a day? thanks.
Well, we're up to 50 posts on this thread so I'll go ahead and make the obligatory "poop" and "Nazi" comments and just get those out of the way...
Oh no, I'm a huge Elizabeth Faulkner fan! And a Taco Bell fan! I will starve!
Google
Whole Foods
Askew Grill
Muni
Anthropologie
Bill's on Clement
Chris Daly
Aaron Peskin
SF Bay Guardian
Critical Ass
Mary's Futons
Buca di Beppo
Pier 39
The 45 MUNI bus route
Parking meters that cost $.25 for 10 minutes
Willie Brown
Those dumb ass 100 year old twins
But once Taco Bell goes under I can buy the TB by the beach and set up the smokin' bar and lounge it was always supposed to be! Brock, I swear, comps for you.
Matrix Fillmore
The Marina
Bella & Daisy
Nieman Marcus (mainly so we don't have to tolerate the folks waving around gruesome photos of dead mink on picket signs)
$20 drop-in yoga classes
Sports Club LA
Pigeons
The Metreon
Com-ass-t
potholes
"Mission-style" gangs
The San Francisco Zoo has to go, while they still have some live animals to be rescued from their abominable care.
MUNI
Tapioca shops, Ed Jew's assistance notwithstanding.
Homeless people need to go, but only if someone finds them homes.
Demonstrations that waste city resources and only preach to the already converted.
Cafe Gratitude and Citizen Cake are the best so far. Come on people, let's hone those laser sights. Just like with the big companies and their layoffs, the downturn can provide a simple way to get rid of gustatorial deadwood. Take this once-per-generation opportunity to guillotine that corner market that charges for matches!
the 22 Fillmore
Danny Coyle's
Duboce Park
I vote for any store that was obviously opened on the whim of some pampered, more money than sense/more daddy's money than sense idiot.
Picky, on Columbus Ave., I'm speaking to you, with your beyond hideous photo printed $450 polyester dresses. Who buys this garbage?
Oh, and newly opened Piazza "Market" that is not really a market but a manifestation of the owner's dream to open a completely redundant wine shop, a couple of blocks from Coit Liquor. Yeah, I'm looking at you, too.
Plans for congestion pricing. :)
Cafe Gratitude and Citizen Cake are the best so far.
I'll second that, manys. I mean, I'm a pretty easy going guy. I hate confrontation. But, even I've had to badger the staff of Cafe Gratitude to stop chatting with each other long enough to put my to-go order piece of over-priced vegan cobbler into a goddamn recycled paper box.
er...
Dany Coyles? Where else are you going to meet Irish girls doing rails at 11 am on a Sunday morning?
Bills on Clement? The best meat, cheese and bread concoctions in California.
Bluecanary, I am so with you on Piazza Market. I was so stoked at the idea of having a market in my neighborhood. I went in the day they opened and was so disappointed. What a waste of what could be a really cool space. And why do they even call it a market?
And to add to that list, Angela Alioto's bizarre St. Francis fetish shop that opened recently on Grant and Vallejo where the True Value hardware store used to be. I've never seen a customer in there.
And Jeffrey's on Grant that appears to only sell the type of clownish clothes that Elizabeth Hasselbeck wears.
haight st.
people who ride bikes on sidewalks
the entire city of Salinas
Best Buy and
the rest of Circuit City
Olive Garden
Walgreens (at least half of them)
Starbucks (all of 'em)
every shitty t shirt shop on haight street
wasteland
lucky penny
american apparel
hipsters
and jesus christ, if i ever have to go to cafe gratitude again i will choke on my own cynicism.
Wicked. Wicked. (Second sentence whispered)
most of the shit on Mission St.
KRON 4
the brand-new Ferrari store downtown
Hello???? The FEDERAL RESERVE!!!!!
LayoffClub.com
@LisaLives:
While we're at it how about:
Angela Alioto.
She is the definition of meddlesome. That sfweekly piece on her meddling with Cafe Trieste because she's dating the owner's son just really burned me up.
All those trendy fro-yo places.
All those trendy cupcake shops.
All the curio boutique stores between 16th and Valencia and 19th:
Bell Jar
Ostu
The curiosity shoppe
5 and diamond
etc... etc...
The above-ground section of N-Judah route on Duboce between the two tunnels.
Citizen Cake is generally awesome, although I wouldn't know about their breakfast.
Everything Bikram.
Everything owned by Lakireddy Reddy, including both Pasands.
Rob Anderson's apartment. Hope his landlord uses the Ellis Act on him.
hipsters that post yelp reviews complaining about other hipsters frequenting the exact same places.
How could I forget Villains?
OMG Deborah, you win!
Also, fizzandpop, your love of Bill's makes me completely understand you. Let me just put it that way.
Kinko's
Applebee's
Hot Topic,
Harley Davidson,
My own union,
Al Davis, (yes, he's a corporation)
and ... Salmon Farms.
zionism