It's about time
It's about time
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For me, one of the most annoying things about shopping in stores is that I'm forced to drive to a big box store like Target or Walmart because they've forced the local stores out of business, destroying traditional downtowns and walkable neighborhoods and making people need a car to get anywhere. Did they fix that?
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https://ilsr.org/articles/robinson-patman-groceries-atlantic/
Someone on here pointed me to this excellent article.
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As with so many wonderful things in the US and the rest of the planet, it can be traced to Reagan era successes in the class war.</s>
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Great article, thank you for sharing.
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The fix is to move to a super expensive walkable neighborhood in the city that everyone wants to live in and no one can afford
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The fix is to legalize the construction of more of these walkable neighbourhoods which are the most desirable places to live (so developers could make a lot of money with relatively small plots of land) yet are illegal to build because city governments have regulated them into oblivion.
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I go to Europe and I see people just living in the normal areas and outside of the tourist. Zones. They look relatively happy, they don't smile insincerely and they look healthier. Very few people are obese. Just your few grandmas, may be a few of them, but that's it. I'm not trying to fat shame. It's actually to the contrary. The stress levels of these horribly paid jobs and the crap food that people have to consume to survive is what makes us so unhealthy. I go to the thrift store. I buy stuff at the thrift store. Sometimes it's better quality. There is so much shit in America. Useless shit. And you can't blame China because somebody's in charge of importing this garbage. And when we had more markets that were open and not overpriced, we could get better quality if we knew what we were doing. Just remember, when they try to blame China, there is some douchebag on a computer, weighing out the cost benefit ratio, and always going to the lowest common denominator, which is fucking you. You can't just rely on people to do the right thing, especially when you live in a culture that just robs and steals from each other. We are so individualistic, it's disgusting. I feel like it's 28 days later and I'm the character laying in the grass. You know, in the midst of a zombie apocalypse and I look up in the sky and I see a plane flyover. It's like the rest of the world is just moving on while we in America are on a whole other journey.
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And on top of this, we have to ring up and bag our own stuff now. There's always a line because someone doesn't know how to use the machine.
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and they never have exactly what you need either. the number of times i've come home empty handed and had to buy online anyway is rediculous
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Were those little stores actually affordable to people on the bottom half of the income scale? Grocery stores are a great example. I would go bankrupt trying to shop for groceries at the corner store. People complain about the chains but I don't recall small grocery stores ever being affordable.
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It's true they can charge cheaper prices, and that's why they're able to put other stores out of business. The problem is, there are a lot of large-scale negative effects, but the decision of shopping there is usually beneficial on an individual level. It's the "tragedy of the commons".
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According to the article, independent grocery stores were only 1% more expensive than the chains when the act was being enforced.
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The clickbait works.. what does this article claim is one of the most annoying things? I must know!
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Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express have either already stopped or will soon no longer require customers to sign their receipts when checking out.
Who the hell makes customers sign the receipt? I've only seen an employee sign it, and that's for a return/refund.
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I think they mean digitally signing on the pad, which it does every time a card is run as credit.
Which means I won't be able to draw my little house anymore :(
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Just USian things.
https://wallethub.com/edu/cc/chip-and-pin-vs-chip-and-signature/25668
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I see it in my area; there's an electronic signature required. The tablet surface is vertical and no one ever actually signs their name on a vertical surface.
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Same my entire adult life I don't think I have ever signed one.
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I only ever get asked to sign the receipt at small, local stores.
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Next year: "We've heard your complaints about credit cards. So we're switching to Bitcoin only."
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I only need to do that at IKEA in a European country.
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An annoying thing which has been identified by 2 of the biggest corporations around? For all we know it's changing the "wet floor" signs to be more noticeable.
Bait is always less interesting than it advertises.
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Honestly a good rule to live by. If it were really that outstandingly annoying, they'd just say what it is in the title knowing that it would drive clicks from people who would think "Oh my god, I hated that!"
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Long lines at one register because they don’t have enough employees in store to check people out? I walked out of CVS the other day because I couldn’t justify standing around for 15 minutes to buy a drink.
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CVS is a shady company anyway. They sell homeopathic bullshit at the pharmacy. I remember seeing them selling bags of salt as a cure for asthma. Nope, I’m out.
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Most chain pharmacies sell this stuff because they can make a buck off it. At least CVS stopped selling nicotine products aside from cessation stuff, unlike Walgreens. I don't know about other chains and how they compare.
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They don't even actually sell those all that often enough to justify them taking up shelf space.
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Somehow CVS always has broken self-checkout and needs the most store personnel to operate self checkout.
And it just doesn’t work. Somehow it’s never smooth or reliable. That’s the one store where the cashier has the most advantage - I’d use the cashier every time if it weren’t for all the store staff trying to push customers to self-checkout.
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Thank your local corporate consultant and CEO. They have had every incentive to cut staff and increase prices to get paid and have a bigger bonus.
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Wow, they’re closing all their stores?
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We need an attendant on the dildo and shaving isle! A customer has a question on the vibration and battery life. Beth, that's probably a you question!
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The fact that they keep condoms locked up is obnoxious and stupid. Some teenager is not going to feel comfortable pressing that button and standing next to the condoms while waiting 20 minutes for someone to notice them. They’re just going to knock up their girlfriend instead.
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https://ilsr.org/articles/robinson-patman-groceries-atlantic/
Someone on here pointed me to this excellent article.
<s>
As with so many wonderful things in the US and the rest of the planet, it can be traced to Reagan era successes in the class war.</s>
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Why not link to the actual article?
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Thats some funny shit.
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With the shit Walmart is selling it’s actually not far from the truth.
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You know how this simulation is already fucked, it's be cool to have an Infinite Walmart [SCP-3008-W?]
"The store is now closed, get the fuck out of the building karen!"
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