chapotraphouse

New research

It's not new you dipshit

Listen if the poors don't like it, they can start their own supermarket chain. That's the beauty of the free market, clearly there is simply not a single person on the entire world with a superior entrepreneurial spirit than the founders of fucking Walmart.

Wow economists from 1997 just called and...

It's weird to see this acknowledged over and over and over again every few years.

So using the full weight of Wall Street and their infinite debt derivative mechanisms to systematically gut the ever living fuck out of local communities at a loss isn't sustainable? Well....no shit.

Amazon is next. They ran the same racket. Sure the debt schemes can make a single family...shareholder very obscenely wealthy, but screwing with the fundementals of the market by grossly rewarding something that makes no profit is unsustainable.

Before Walmart we had a healthy competition between stores in my town. The profits were also there in spades. It was an ample supply of jobs.we had people not only bag your groceries, but take them to your car and load them in the car too. Lots of high school kids got their start that way. Then they would spend that money going out to eat, going to the movies, saving for school, buying their 1st cars.

Now well only Meijer and Family Fare/ Spartan remain with Walmart and you have to bag your own damned groceries and have an A.I. camera publicly accuse you of theft if your hand moves the wrong way.

Anybody remember when Walmart, like 10+ years ago did A/B testing of their stores by pretty much opening a Walmart next to a Walmart across the street from a Walmart before closing all but one of the locations and leaving behind these huge empty buildings sitting unused for years?