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If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains
Nah see, this is still dodging accountability.
It’s not about if the STORES care about the community, it’s YOU. You decide if you want to pay more so the community prospers. It’s ridiculous to expect smaller stores to be able to compete with large corporations, but it’s also ridiculous to expect “someone will take care of it.” Nah bro. It’s on YOU to decide if you’re investing in your town, your county or your state or if you prefer low prices but also rotting wages and none of the things you want around you.
“I’m just doing what everyone is doing to survive.”
Yah and you’re all here in “survival mode” because you picked the faster, cheaper option. It’s not too late to turn it around. Maybe you will spend $5 bucks on a new toilet gasket instead of $4.50. Maybe you have to spend $1.90 on each cucumber instead of $1.25. Yes it adds up, but that money is staying in your immediate area. Your local walmart doesn’t cut checks from your local credit union, that comes from a corporate account that never touches your area. Repeat this all over the country, every day, every month, every year, and you have massive amounts of YOUR money being shipped out of town and out of country.
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.
Nah see, this is still dodging accountability.
It’s not about if the STORES care about the community, it’s YOU. You decide if you want to pay more so the community prospers. It’s ridiculous to expect smaller stores to be able to compete with large corporations, but it’s also ridiculous to expect “someone will take care of it.” Nah bro. It’s on YOU to decide if you’re investing in your town, your county or your state or if you prefer low prices but also rotting wages and none of the things you want around you.
“I’m just doing what everyone is doing to survive.”
Yah and you’re all here in “survival mode” because you picked the faster, cheaper option. It’s not too late to turn it around. Maybe you will spend $5 bucks on a new toilet gasket instead of $4.50. Maybe you have to spend $1.90 on each cucumber instead of $1.25. Yes it adds up, but that money is staying in your immediate area. Your local walmart doesn’t cut checks from your local credit union, that comes from a corporate account that never touches your area. Repeat this all over the country, every day, every month, every year, and you have massive amounts of YOUR money being shipped out of town and out of country.
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.
Yeah, typical useful idiot thinking it’s up to the customer instead of the business owners to foot the bill for these problems.