just opened twitter, saw the dumbest shit ive seen all week and closed it again. how do people unironically use this shit lol
the Waltons are the real thieves here. Walmart invades communities, destroy scores of (relatively) decently-paying retail jobs, replaces them with a scant few jobs that pay somewhere between fuckall and jack-shit, and leaves the community they fucked over even worse off when they inevitably pack up and leave ten or twenty years later. they rob their employees of their time, labour, dignity, and even of the meagre wages they pay them, they rob communities of wealth, and they rob you by paying their employees so little that they are forced to rely on taxpayer funded social programmes. fuck 'em. steal everything you can carry. steal shit you don't even really want and give it away. fuck 'em.
Portland, like every city in North America, is getting really fucking expensive to live in. this presents two big problems for Walmart -
- their primary customer base (poor people) can no longer afford to live in Portland
- their employees (poor people) can no longer afford to live in Portland
obviously, these factors make it rather challenging to, er, run a profitable store. so they have a few options -
- raise prices considerably to try and increase revenue and pay employees enough to live in the city, which will go over about as well as a brick
- do the first thing while also trying to rebrand as a more upmarket establishment to justify price increases, which would be insane
- pull out of Portland and invest capital elsewhere
the third option is the only one that makes a lick of sense, so it should be no surprise that that's what they're doing. am I 100% confident in this assertion? no not really, I came up with this on the toilet. but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm at least partially right.
