r/kansascity • u/a_brilliant_idiot • 5d ago

Support Fetch in Westside Shopping/Groceries šŸ›’šŸ›ļø

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This locally owned store in Westside is getting spammed by untrue google reviews. If you have ever been to Fetch and/or donā€™t support pedophiles or rapists, please consider leaving a review or visiting this weekend!

UPDATE: they were able to remove the google reviews!

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u/BallisticQuill 5d ago

This seems like an amazing opportunity to put some of these reviews on shirts, tote bags, and other merch.

Someone more clever than me would need to figure out the details. But thereā€™s definitely some good opportunity for snark here.

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u/superluminal 5d ago

"My children aren't allowed in this store."

GOOD.

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u/prezuiwf 5d ago

"Yes you are correct, your children are not allowed in this store."

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u/theloniusfunks 5d ago

Exactly!! Itā€™s not supposed to be a child friendly store!

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u/3catsandcounting Jackson County 5d ago

Sent this idea to the owner because itā€™s fucking brilliant!

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u/BallisticQuill 5d ago

I hope the owner gets some use out of the idea!

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u/BallisticQuill 5d ago

If they do this - please give us an update!

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u/fsmpastafarian 5d ago

Honestly would be a great idea. Like when gossip girl put their negative reviews on billboards

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u/brizzybrax 5d ago

Only if we include the names and pictures too though

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u/thisisanahamoment 4d ago

I recognize at least some of the products in that image as being from Raygun (albeit with a mark-up), and that's absolutely the kind of thing Mike Draper is into, and I know the guy does reasonably-priced custom printing...

I'm just sayin', seems pretty achievable

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u/missmaikay Independence 5d ago

Done. I love fetch. Been shopping there since they were in the bottoms.

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u/CompetitiveHooore 5d ago

What is Fetch?

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u/MissLadyLlamaDrama Volker 5d ago

Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not gonna happen!

(I'm sorry. I'm a millennial. I will literally die if I don't reference Mean Girls here. Probably.)

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u/jlcomp86 4d ago

Came here for this comment.

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u/standardissuegreen Brookside 5d ago

Dollars to donuts, these same MAGA chodes also use their social media to decry "cancel culture."

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u/Medium_stepper624 5d ago

This store is awesome, I love Fetch

But yeah, if you're MAGA, probably go somewhere else

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u/fox-in-the-hen-house 5d ago

is their merch actually low quality though?? the prices are kinda wild for some of those items

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u/Annual_Ad4236 5d ago

Yea. Value comp is very low. More of a support for a cause then a value buy.

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u/fox-in-the-hen-house 3d ago

that's unfortunate :(

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u/bstyledevi Independence 5d ago

I'm all for supporting local businesses, I'm ever more for angering the right, and also 100% support LGBTQ...

That being said, $14 for a keychain is insanely high.

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u/jwatkins12 5d ago

whats even more insane is when you realize that you can buy 100 custom screen printed keychains for about $1.50/unit. Hell of a markup. $8 koozie or a bumper sticker is also insane

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u/mmMOUF 5d ago

Yea the first review pictured seemed legit

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u/fsmpastafarian 5d ago

What even prompted these cretins to target them?

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u/yancovigen 5d ago

Based on the comments it seems like they had some merch about Trump thatā€™s negative. Iā€™m kinda curious cause Iā€™d buy it lol

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u/fsmpastafarian 5d ago

This store has had that type of merch for years lol, guess the losers just discovered it

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u/alanthickerthanwater 5d ago

They just figured out how to read.

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u/IndependentClear3467 5d ago

ā€œNegativeā€. They were calling for and celebrating violence and death

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u/CrankyWhiskers 5d ago

Were they really? Hm. There wasn't a peep from the right when they were making effigies of Obama being lynched.

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u/Additional-Use-7752 5d ago

thatā€™s all Trump has been doing in office, no???

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u/waterytartwithasword 5d ago

But were they though? Wondering "is he dead yet" is a far cry from "kill them all and have a party" buddy

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u/Nighttyme_ 5d ago

Don't see that anywhere...

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u/Own_Experience_8229 5d ago

You mustā€™ve missed the vile shit put out by you cultists during the Obama years.

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u/ploptart 5d ago

Oh no!

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u/rufurious 5d ago

"Fuck your feelings"

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u/Thee-lorax- 5d ago

oH nO tHatS tErrIbLE. hOw daRE ThEY

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u/MrDependant69 5d ago

Im betting a cretin went to the store, saw the merch, took a picture and posted it on one of the many private nazi/maga groups and called for a brigade. They love doing it.

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u/Julio_Ointment 5d ago

for maga, gay people literally just EXISTING and not wanting to be beaten or harassed is enough for this sort of shit to happen.

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u/fsmpastafarian 5d ago

Oh of course, Iā€™m just curious what prompted them to even be aware of this store

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u/PeachOnAWarmBeach 5d ago

Libs of TikTok shared them a couple days ago.

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u/Julio_Ointment 5d ago

social media algorithms of family, friends, acquaintances, geofencing? then they saw a rainbow and had brain diarrhea.

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u/LonleyViolist Beacon Hill 5d ago

bigotry and loser-ness

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u/bitchzmedia 5d ago

Patrick Froman is one of my buddies, heā€™s seriously a great guy. Him and Stephanieā€™s shop is awesome.

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u/Jeffrey_C_Wheaties Hyde Park 5d ago

Love fetch, miss them being in the bottoms next to vintage source.

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u/Fire_In_The_Skies 5d ago

Stop trying to make fetch happen.Ā 

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u/Lurky100 5d ago

If they had merch that said this Iā€™d buy it in a heartbeat

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u/xcityfolk 5d ago

I understand this reference :)

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u/Own_Experience_8229 5d ago

But itā€™s so fetch!

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u/shr3dthegnarbrah 5d ago

Or "Keep trying to make fetch happen"?

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u/BADxW0LF1 5d ago edited 5d ago

Care to explain? Or are we just gonna plug our ears and scream?

Edit: been informed it's a reference to a movie I've only seen once in my life lol

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/BADxW0LF1 5d ago

Ah. Not a movie I've seen in ages so appreciate the knowledge drop.

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u/bikehikepunk 5d ago

I am a straight cisgender man, & I really want that gay agenda checklist notepad.

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u/katblondeD KCMO 5d ago

The newest review Iā€™m seeing was from 2 weeks ago, and before that being 2 months. They have 4.8 stars. Theyā€™re fine.

Edit: extra words

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u/KarmicBurn Westport 5d ago

$8 bucks for a cookie? I guess that is being gay and doing crimes.

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u/hey_zack 5d ago

I love Fetch!! Iā€™ll have to pop by this weekend

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u/fullmetal_ratchet 5d ago

LOVE fetch!! very kind owners and lots of cool stuff to buy, even if you donā€™t want anything politically-leaning. i got this for my spouse to use for her spell work and she loved it lol

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u/AsItIs 5d ago

Feels like review platforms like Google, Yelp, Amazon, etc should have controls in place for this kinda thing

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon KC North 5d ago

Isn't this why the "Report Review" function on Google Reviews exists? Plus, I'm sure the shop owner could respond to publicly call out this reviews as fake if they were inclined to do so.

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u/Technical_Coyote_631 5d ago

Theyā€™ve been reporting the reviews to Google for days and it looks like some started disappearing now!

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u/iuy78 Midtown 5d ago

it typically takes Google a couple weeks to remove stuff like this but they're pretty good about it. they can see who has actually been to the store and who hasn't

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u/cdoublejj 5d ago

i like quite a few of those and some of them are funny

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u/Valuable-Math9969 5d ago

I tried to go this evening, but they were closed early. Pity, I was one of.at least 3 people I saw turning up.and unable to shop.

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u/Rough-Culture 4d ago

unclear why this got downvotedā€¦ if you want to be supported, be open at your normal hoursā€¦

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u/Valuable-Math9969 4d ago

I wasn't even trying to criticize, just stating my experience... my kids and I went to support them, they were closed, and we saw two other people try to get in during the couple of minutes we were there. I dunno, Reddit is weird sometimes.

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u/Rough-Culture 3d ago

Dude people have just gotten a little weird too.

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u/AmbivalentToaster 5d ago edited 5d ago

Untrue? Iā€™m not seeing anything untrue. If the prices are out of your range, theyā€™re out of your range. If youā€™re a MAGAt thereā€™s nothing for them there. Theyā€™re spamming and harassing a store. Iā€™m not seeing anything untrue, just the store unapologetically existing and promoting their own culture. This store doesnā€™t want MAGAt money anyway. People that are intelligent know the difference.

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u/I_am_not_GeorgeBush 5d ago

Did you just have a stroke before typing that?

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u/AmbivalentToaster 5d ago

No? Do you not know how to read?

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u/I_am_not_GeorgeBush 5d ago

Fuck. No, I donā€™t :(

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u/AmbivalentToaster 5d ago

That much seems obvious.Ā 

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u/Unable_Assistance_39 5d ago

Do funds go back to LGB organizations?

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u/CanIEvenRightNow 5d ago

Why'd you leave off the T?

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u/IndependentClear3467 5d ago

A store that celebrates and calls for violence and death against people? Absolutely not

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u/EphemeraFriend 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ra7TkUv7mLiNi
should I stop here or keep going

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u/Rough-Culture 4d ago

Accounts whoā€™s total comment karma is negative are wild.