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Anthony Cumia coming to WABC

RadioFixerCLE said:
None of those Manhattan chains (I never saw Dags, RA or Gristedes in the Boros) were any good. They were glorified dirty supersized convenience stores. I lived in 718 land and felt sorry for the 212 peeps.😀
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I was the opposite. I actually liked going in those stores because I would see stuff I didn't get near me in the Bronx.

My sister's first paying job was at a Red Apple in East Harlem. That may have been as far uptown as they went, I never saw them in the Bronx.

Theater of My Mind said:
I walked into one a couple weeks ago for the first time in years looking for a small item. Left empty handed. Your assessment is 100 percent accurate. Also the prices are ridiculous.
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About 25 years ago I use to frequent one D'Agostino on the Upper East Side (Lexington and 76th), as it was close to my then-job. I went back there about a year ago when visiting a relative at nearby Lenox Hill Hospital, and absolutely nothing had changed. It was the same for a Gristedes in the West Village (Sheridan Square) I frequented after one of many trips to the old Disc-o-Rama.

I once heard Cats say that he wasn't as involved in the stores compared to his other businesses, but that he won't sell them, either.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
I walked into one a couple weeks ago for the first time in years looking for a small item. Left empty handed. Your assessment is 100 percent accurate. Also the prices are ridiculous.
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Remember, supermarkets operate on a very slim margin, often around 1%. In NYC, expenses are terribly high, starting with rents, so prices are going to be higher than, let's say, Knoxville, TN.

Another factor with supermarkets in central city areas is "shrinkage" which is the industry term for shoplifting. There are so many things in a market that can be slipped in a purse or pocket that the incidence of such theft is very high.

(I was a division head of the company that owned Hills on Long Island in the 1970's. That episode almost brought the whole company down. It is a tough business. And in NYC, dealing with some of the wholesalers is, well, dangerous.)
 
DavidEduardo said:
Another factor with supermarkets in central city areas is "shrinkage" which is the industry term for shoplifting. There are so many things in a market that can be slipped in a purse or pocket that the incidence of such theft is very high.
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You'd think we'd see a return to counter service with clerks working off the customers lists. But of course that won't happen. But that would definitely eliminate shoplifting.
 
RadioFixerCLE said:
You'd think we'd see a return to counter service with clerks working off the customers lists. But of course that won't happen. But that would definitely eliminate shoplifting.
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It would be preferable to locked-up shelves where you have to try to find someone with a key, always the worst experience. I think they would be better off with a counter where you could use touchscreens and/or app to order your items in the store and have them handed to you at the pickup counter. Also not optimal, but arguably better than trying to find a keyholder.

When I was a kid, I bought my first radio at Consumers Distributing, a counter store pre-dating online shopping/apps where you went in, picked your item from a catalog and handed the counter clerk an order form to get it handed to you. That chain closed in the 90s but there are still auto parts stores around that use that type of counter service.

I saw none of the above in effect at Gristedes, though.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Curbside pickup is ordering online and then going to the store later to pick it up. It doesn't help people already in the store who can't access the items they want because they're either locked up or have disappeared to shoplifters.
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But hey, "law and order" is a dirty term these days.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Curbside pickup is ordering online and then going to the store later to pick it up. It doesn't help people already in the store who can't access the items they want because they're either locked up or have disappeared to shoplifters.
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If only there was a way to ask someone with a key to unlock the items so they could buy one. Oh well!
 
Yes it's real He also posted a screenshot of the salary pay stub or success factors website.
He explains that during the discussions on the call they alluded to 150, He thought it was $150 a show, but when he got the contract that's when he noticed it was $150,000 a year for 2 hours a week

Also wanted to mention that last week's show was almost a disaster he had a guy called Grillo from the Howard Stern show on obviously to dish dirt on his time at the Howard Stern show however it soon derailed and it was very evident that Anthony needs to reign in his past and start afresh but luckily he did just that and the next hour was absolutely fantastic.
 
Anthony has now been given an extra hour. 8-11 EST.
Looks like the market wants to lap up what Anthony has to offer.
I noticed recently there's a lot of traffic on social media and youtube trying to get Anthony fired for past events.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
When I was a kid, I bought my first radio at Consumers Distributing, a counter store pre-dating online shopping/apps where you went in, picked your item from a catalog and handed the counter clerk an order form to get it handed to you. That chain closed in the 90s but there are still auto parts stores around that use that type of counter service.
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BEST Catalog stores come to mind.

Could it be that the likes of Sears and BEST and Spiegel catalogs had consumer shopping down pat all along?

What's old could become new again.
 
MacjT said:
Anthony has now been given an extra hour. 8-11 EST.
Looks like the market wants to lap up what Anthony has to offer.
I noticed recently there's a lot of traffic on social media and youtube trying to get Anthony fired for past events.
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Shoot, one wouldn’t have to go back too far to find ammo against Anthony. Hell, there are clips from Compound Media in the past few weeks that would get a more mainstream talk show host canned. Any talk about race not in a positive light will definitely get you in some hot water these days.

Fact is, Cats knew exactly what he was getting when he signed Anthony. That being said, he is (like him or not) a natural for a conservative talk format in his post O&A guise.
 
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