Why are you hating on poor people? Do you think punching down makes good comedy?
The dollar store destroys communities, it’s their fucking business model. Fuck the dollar store
Yeah it’s a weird flex, bragging about supporting an exploitative business that price gouges essentials and kills small business all while shaming the people who are trapped by the very system.
How so?
In short, local stores cannot stay afloat anymore when 30% of their customers disappear.
Local stores that were profiting off their customers and not giving back to the community lose 30% of their customers who weren’t benefiting in any way from a local store to more affordable options when available? Wow
It’s also a question of food availability. Perhaps food deserts don’t matter to you and I doubt you’d care but when businesses get pushed out by dollar stores the selection and variety of fresh produce goes down while the quantity and variety of prepackaged & shelf stable garbage goes up.
I get what you’re saying, but the profits going to locals is objectively better for the community than them going to large corporations.
That’s the point though. The profits don’t go to locals, they stay within the owner’s for their second cottage and new boat. Very rarely do local stores actually benefit anybody other than themselves.
You don’t know many small town shop owners do you?
They’re infinitely more likely to indirectly get back to the locals than if they were to go directly to a corporation on the other side of the country.
You’re almost there. Now what if the owner was a local? And he’s paying loans to the local bank? And his cottage is up the hill? It used to be like that. Hell, in my town many stores are like that… And they’re competing against DG.
It used to be like that
You’re right, about 100 years ago it did used to be like that. Local banks aren’t a thing anymore. While Co-op banking institutions are better for the local community, they’re also investing in options outside the local community, further depleting the resources of the 30% of customers who shop at more affordable locations
There’s nothing more devastating than walking through an entire dollar store and saying “I can’t afford any of this shit”
