Comment on The Walmart in my town didn’t clearly don’t care lol

• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Walmart is the original Amazon and the poster child for corporate welfare. They have a long history of coming into a town and undercutting the prices of all the local businesses then doing monopoly things when they are the only ones left. Then they did the same thing again in the 90s and 2000s when they added groceries to all their formerly department style stores. At one point in time instructions on how to apply for food stamps were part of the onboarding process when you got a job there. The Waltons, the family that inherited Walmart from their father/grandfather, are just as insufferable as any other rich family.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mhhhh, seems like grandfathered in hate from 20 years ago, but fair enough. To be fair to them: I would expect all budget grocers/stores to be just as bad.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Corporations don’t get to be absolved of ruining Main Street just because 10 years has passed.

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        After 10 years other people are working there. It’s not a person after all.

        And you tend to have to buy your stuff somewhere after all. No consumption is no option.

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