wozniacki · HackerTrans

I dont know how they pulled off the Wild Oats [1] [2] acquisition years ago - or if things were just as bad back then, because I didn't shop at Whole Foods in those years.

But I wish we had a greater array of upmarket or upmarket-adjacent stores that carried fresh & nutritious offerings that you didnt have to label-check twice before buying.

There must be something fundamentally wrong with grocery store margins in the US ( or just in California ) that no one seems to be able to make a buck consistently to keep standards high.

I hear great things about Wegmans & they've been forever in the mid-Atlantic states. Its telling they havent chosen to set up shop in California despite plentiful metro areas that could support such fare.

I never really thought very expensive California real estate markets would be the places for future food deserts but we're nearly there.

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Oats_Markets

[2]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wholefoods-ftc/whole-food...

wozniacki

6 lat temudiscuss

Some places make you dread going to grocery stores. Even club stores that require membership are bad. The experience has been nothing short of a nightmare off late, even prior to these pandemic times.

Costco & Whole Food stores have especially declined in overall shopper experience. Clueless store staff, shoddy inventory levels, incompetent employees who cant be bothered to educate themselves on elementary details, rude and crass shoppers, shoppers who dont return their carts to the corrals, thinning variety of offerings, long lines at checkout, lack of adequate number of self checkout terminals .... the list goes on.

I recall even 3-4 years things weren't so bad at these two very different stores. Now they're almost uniformly bad.

I just wish they had large refrigerated silos outside the store in the parking lot, where they could let you pick up your online orders like Walmart does.

wozniacki

7 lat temudiscuss

This might seem minor in the scheme of things that Windows 10 has regressed on (compared to even Windows 8.1) but has anyone found a cure for the atrocious way Win 10 does the "Show windows side by side", now.

Previously it would just evenly split the existing windows into equal sized ones spread across the width of the screen. It worked beautifully! If there were two windows they would neatly fit into each half of the screen, fully sized respectively.

Now it does this strange quarter-stacking of the said windows on top of each other, squeezed into ONE HALF of the screen and leaves the other HALF EMPTY (exposing the destop) !! This absolutely drives me nuts. There are Chrome extensions ("Tab resize") to cure this but its a pointless added series of steps where you individually tweak each open window to the size you want. Its bonkers.

I don't get who in the right mind would come up with this as an enhancement when the previous one worked just fine !!

Please reverse this.

wozniacki

7 lat temudiscuss

Yes HIPAA.

Data protection is a huge latent cost in the dispensation of healthcare that goes unnoticed in discussions. And HIPAA can get expensive for the providers.

  If you are a small covered entity, HIPAA should cost:
    Risk Analysis and Management Plan ~$2,000
    Remediation ~ $1,000 - $8,000
    Training and policy development ~ $1,000-2,000
    Total: $4,000 - $12,000


  If you are a medium/large covered entity, HIPAA should cost:
    Onsite audit ~ $40,000+
    Risk Analysis and Management Plan ~ $20,000+
    Vulnerability scans ~ $800
    Penetration testing ~ $5,000+
    Remediation ~ Varies based on where entity stands in compliance 
    and security
    Training and policy development ~ $5,000+
    Total: $50,000+, depending on the entity’s current environment

wozniacki

7 lat temudiscuss

   It's very easy to take a particular right (e.g., speech,
   property) and defend it absolutely. But rights are 
   inherently social, and must be balanced against other 
   people's rights.

Would you find it acceptable if we societally agreed to do away with the privacy that surrounds the dispensation of healthcare - all the costly protocols (like Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and others), the costly mandated use of privacy compliant software, the costly mandated use of approved healthcare vendors and sub-vendors, the costly management, storing and archival of your records - all of that - say in the name of cheaper, higher quality and more widely accessible healthcare with more rich array of options offered to the citizenry as a whole - the likes of which that are unimaginable in our bloated, archaic and fault-prone system?

Doesn't that sound like a good societal trade off? Your paramount right to privacy can't be defended absolutely at the cost of people's basic access to quality healthcare.

Now can it?

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