Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore'

devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Dollar general is pretty bad for towns. Don’t know if they’ve done heinous anti union shit yet by they siphon wealth out of local economies kind of lethally

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hard to unionize when you’re the only person working the store.

    But yes, the company is also anti-union.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s right I forget they operate on skeleton crews.

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  • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is true, but Dollar General also tends to move in after the economy is already hollowed out. You used to have vast distribution networks of local merchants and independent businesses. Now everything flows up to the Waltons and Bezos and Dollar General licks up the scraps.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was not aware of this. A lot of these towns I see them feeding off of had their moment before I was born, so that’s a detail I missed

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Walmart is way worse.

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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Alongside Amazon, both of them destroyer of malls.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    literally every public company siphons wealth

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Indeed but Dollar General is just worth mentioning specifically because the rate they do it at is larger per their revenue. Like if you live in a small town and hear DG is trying to set up, seriously fight that shit.

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• Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It takes twice as many sticks to make a W than a V.

  ~smokebomb~

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