When they made it illegal to keep or store open or go to a store, that stopped being an open competitive market.
Amazon’s propaganda arm, the Washington Post and associated propaganda outlets for tech companies that benefitted infinitely due to the shut downs etc...worked tirelessly to instill the fear and get the policies enacted that benefit their own companies.
I think Bezos keeps those “teens” on the payroll to terrorize malls and stores.
Sears could have been the online marketplace of the new millennium....but they were just too effing stupid to do it.
Oh, I don’t know - what happened to Borders Books anyway?
dont vote dem
problem solved
For many like he in small rural cities, the choice often isn’t between Amazon and a locally owned business, it’s one between Amazon and Walmart or a similar big box chain that may not have what I want in stock, not to mention the time and hassle.
Amazon Prime and it’s on my doorstep in two days.
On Gab I post THuG Life.
https://gab.com/groups/42198
Named after a book my daughter had to read in high school.
Aggregated postings show the violence our teachers are teaching our kids is out of control.
Now my kid is working Christmas help in a mall.
She has been sent home a few times because it is so slow.
I quizzed her. The only store the THuGs would be interested in is an Apple store downstairs and away from her.
I told her that if unsavory people start hanging around, give me a call and I’ll find a seat near her store.
Small retail stores were killed off decades ago by the demise of newspaper competition in the major cities. Once only one newspaper was left in a city advertising became too expensive for most small retail businesses.
I try to patronize locally owned businesses whenever I can.
Even if it costs a little more.
Usually the service is excellent and the quality is good. It has to be if they are going to be able to compete.
No mention of the minimum wage.
Interesting.
I went to several stores last weekend looking for shoe laces. Probably used a couple gallons of gas. Finally, went to Amazon and chose between thousands of choices. I had my order in one day.
The inside walkway mall seven miles away has Costco and quite a few service businesses.
The outside walkway mall about three miles further north has stores with outside entrances that are doing a modest amount of business. The Publix does fairly well and now has an self-checkout section.
In the last few months, I spent $5.99 at a locally owned business.
I find Amazon very difficult to shop - too many unsuitable choices are offered up.
Small retailers selling their own, custom-manufactured products are still doing fine.
Crime is a problem at big malls - but small retailers haven’t been able to afford those rents for decades. That’s why every mall in America offers the same 35 biggish, Asian supply-chain-driven stores these days.
The idea of the straw that broke the camel’s back comes to mind.
I believe it was named Amazon for a reason. Amazon being widest river on the planet.
Don’t quote me but I think I read in the Bible’s Book of Revelation that sometime the rivers will dry up. It’s all about control, folks.
Westfield is to blame for gentrifying the shopping mall. There used to be the “good mall”, and the “black mall”.
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