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If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 10 hours ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Giving money to Amazon, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google .etc

It's like, you can't have an argument for price gouging, when you're enabling them by spending. If people were smart, they'd stop giving them money 10 - 15 years ago and they'd be right now, trying to reconstruct so they can be more economically friendly than how they are now.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Stealing from walmart also isn't sustainable if many people are doing it. For example there were a ton of walmarts and other stores in the Chicago area that recently closed due to high theft at those locations. Now whole communities there are left without convenient shopping options, which can be a big problem for people with limited transportation options.

[–] mke_geek@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Stealing isn't right.

The Walmart near me closed due to high theft. There were actually people stealing from the construction site when the store was being built, so it really was a ticking clock as to how long the store itself would even last.

Some people are just awful.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That Walmart CLAIMED were closed for high theft.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can look up videos of some of the stores that were closed, they were basically being straight up looted.

I remember seeing the videos, and thinking to myself how I didn't understand how they could afford to stay in business like that. So when they announced they were closing those stores for theft, I didn't' really think the given reason was every in doubt.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 3 points 8 hours ago

"“The decision to close a store is never easy,” company officials said in a statement. “The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago.”

The stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, according to the company, a figure that nearly doubled in the last five years despite numerous strategies to boost performance, including building smaller stores, offering local products and building a Walmart Academy training center."

https://news.wttw.com/2023/04/12/walmart-closing-4-chicago-stores-company-says-losses-have-doubled-last-5-years

Doesn't sound like theft was ever the problem here according to them?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

Good point. If there aren't other local stores remaining to fill the gaps, then that would be a critical problem.