You mean that Target wasn't closing stores because of theft after all?! I'm shocked.
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Let me guess. The stores they closed tried to unionize, so they made up some shit about shoplifting.
This, with a generous side of pushing right wing narratives about urban crime panic because they think it will help Republicans win.
And yet this was all done by the "national Retain Federation".
Literally complain, yell, cry, and fire people because of unions and yet they are in a corporate Union themselves.
Unions work.
ITT: People who haven't been on the internet long enough to know what BoingBoing is.
I'm old.
If you know what BoingBoing is, your knees probably crackle when you squat and stand.
Yup. I also groan when I sit down. You just had to call me out, didn't you?
At least a decade old and still has a better reading experience than that "paid" news sites.
I wonder how Slashdot is doing...
Looks like it's still going strong, but each article has like 15 comments. And the poll has a CowboyNeal option...
3 digit UID here, I still visit daily but rarely comment
Oh wow, forgot about Slashdot...
Fark, Slashdot, and BoingBoing were pretty much my daily go-to in the pre-Digg/reddit internet
I skipped the Digg era. I didn't join reddit until probably 2015, after I kept coming across extremely useful information there that wasn't available elsewhere. I think it was the advice on what to do with asbestos that finally tipped it over for me.
This turning out to be true is unsurprising, but if it were, follow it to its logical conclusion and you would see large retailers lobbying the government to increase wages. Like, we live in a fucking police state, the problem is not that we're suddenly an outlaw country, the problem is that people don't make enough money or have enough safety nets to live. It's the same with all of the "Americans feel bad about the economy even though the dow is up, why?" Well, because we can't afford housing and groceries. Simple fucking problem.
Those stock indexes only show how the top corporations are doing. A company gets removed from the index if it performs poorly and is replaced by another company that has increasing stock price. The markets as it is displayed in media only show how corporations are doing. So basically the ruling class is selling economic performance to everyone else to keep people in line and their heads securely on their bodies.
I was looking at Bidens approval rating compared to other presidents on 538 and it's crazy seeing the last time this really was so bad, aside from Trump, was the Great Depression...which says alot about the disconnect today spouting Dow successes but normal people struggling to stay afloat.
They’re all insured for these kinds of losses anyway (I used to work in big box retail operations).
Insurance isn't going to cost less than what they're losing. It just smooths out the losses and avoids any surprises.
They’re self insured for this… and it’s priced into the products they sell.
Don't worry, people will completely ignore the retraction and continue to blame their fellow poor people (just not themselves) for the outrageous behavior of our corporations.
Kind of like how any game developer who says that piracy is the reason that they failed financially, even though some of the greatest games of all time are the ones that get pirated the most.
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