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  • gradual@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    Walmart employs members of the community. They bear some of the responsibility for why our community is so prosperous.

    If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains. Otherwise they’re just using “buy local” as an excuse to rip people off and enrich themselves.

    Edit: It’s sad how clueless you people are, but it reinforces why I don’t take the vast majority of you people seriously.

    Keep paying more while thinking you’re somehow getting a better deal.

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        1 year ago

        Not only does Walmart have an enormous number of employees on government assistance, they have training classes for their employees to help them apply.

        Also, a lot of the people they hire, are people who worked for, and even OWNED, small local businesses that they have run out of business. Same goes for ALL big box retailers like Lowes and Home Depot.

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        1 year ago

        What makes you think a local grocery store will pay its employees more than walmart?

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            1 year ago

            locally owned businesses pay and treat their employees better than corporate run places that focus only on profit for the owners and shareholders.

            From my experience, all businesses are trying to maximize profit by paying their employees the least they’re willing to accept. Local businesses don’t pay employees more nor do they ‘treat their employees better.’ It’s all business.

            Second, they couldn’t (legally) pay them less than Walmart does.

            Why not?

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        1 year ago

        It’s not too late to turn it around.

        Unfortunately, it is. It’s nice to think that everybody can do their part to bring back the locally-owned places and sense of community, but you’re not going to convince people living paycheck-to-paycheck who are going to always make a beeline for the cheapest prices. The only time a Wal-mart dies is when the town builds a bigger, new Wal-mart or the town itself dies altogether.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, typical useful idiot thinking it’s up to the customer instead of the business owners to foot the bill for these problems.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah. The facts are clear.

            The fact is I wouldn’t have even moved here if there wasn’t a Walmart.

            The fact is, most useful idiots are proud to pay more while doing mental gymnastics to think they’re getting a better deal.

            The fact is, I genuinely don’t respect most of your financial advice because most of you people spend money like morons while complaining you need more.

            Gonna ignore you now because this isn’t up for debate.

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        1 year ago

        If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains.

        Way to completely ignore the argument.