Anon meets the candy man

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  %he scene is cut in a way thar you don’t know for sure they aren’t paying him. They’re probably pretty loyal, long-time customers, so he can take it on the honors system that they’ll pay for what they’re taking. As for the candy he literally throws into the crowd, I’m sure he can afford to blow some pennies’ worth of money on customer retention by literally throwing candy at them.

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  • wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Candy Man can cause he mixes it with savvy business practices and loss leaders, and makes the world taste goooood!

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I suspect the rich kids had a line of credit where he’d just send the parents a bill at the end of the month. My understanding is many grocers used to operate that way, especially before credit cards.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep. My aunt got in trouble for exactly this when she was a child. Abused the grocery line of credit all summer getting unnecessary candy for herself and her siblings.

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• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rich people get things for free or as gifts all the time. Meanwhile us peasants have to pay.

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  • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Que molestable

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      On Epstein’s island

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s a demonstration of classism in england. The rich kids get things for free, the poor have to pay.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    because being rich is good and should be rewarded and being poor is bad and should be punished.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Prosperity gospel in one sentence

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The difference in building a loyal customer base vs expelling unwanted low lifes

  Excepted return of investment

  PR vs hand outs

  CAPITALISM!

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• shellington@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I always assumed they paid a monthly subscription.

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• phonics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He clocks a kid with the vertical swinging counter door in the movie too. Pretty sure he gets a kickback from the local dentist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Lvn5H0kHw&t=20

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The shop keeper is just prejudiced. Charlie’s four grandparents are in a long-term polycule together. Charlie is the result of an insane two-generation long plan to get all members of the polycule to have a single genetic child together. The polycule has been completely open to the whole town about this plan, and everyone knows it.

  The shopkeeper isn’t prejudiced against the poor. He just has sexual hangups. And he’s projecting his bigotry onto an innocent young child that had no choice but to be part of this whole situation.

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  • BrickEater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This would imply the polycule either groomed their children into predetermined relationship to have Charlie. Or their kids got into a semi-incestous second generation poly relationship which resulted in Charlie.

    Either way there’s some odd moral implications…

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Either way there’s some odd moral implications…

      Aka, it’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

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• LemmyUser0909@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This guy and uncle joe are two peas in a pod…

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Help those who help themselves. That plus it was prolly no secret in the town the disability fraud the grandfather was pulling.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Drug dealer, Charlie doesn’t have any money.

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