Walmart is starting to close stores....

[OperationNumbNutts]

This is what happens when cities let people walk in stores, steal, and have no consequences.

Breh......you really believe it's about shoplifting? A business that's notorious for under paying workers, not staffing stores appropriately, and price gouge their vendors. Seriously.......come on.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Walmart On H in DC was a cesspool

Yeah. They are closing that one and said it was under performing which is bullshyt.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Walmart Ran all the mom and pop stores out of business. Now Walmart is closing. What the hell are people around there gonna do?

Portland is a weird place though don't they have a lot of homeless but also a lot of rich people too

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Walmart wants it both ways. Underpay, short staff, raise prices, run people out of business but complain that theft is driving them out of business while turning record profits


They shut down a bunch of corporate locations and are forcing people to relocate to HQ in bumblefukk Arkansas

 

[Yuzo]

Grocery stores and Home Depot are basically the only two stores really safe from online retail.

i get my groceries delivered.

 

[Absolut]

A few stores out of thousands and folks in here acting like Walmart is on the way out?

 

[I love Latina women]

Like any other store, it'll just replace with something else. and more and more folks are shopping online these days anyway

 

[Gloxina]

I actually have 3 Walmart orders on the way

Don’t even have to step inside.

 

[Wild self]

Walmart Ran all the mom and pop stores out of business. Now Walmart is closing. What the hell are people around there gonna do?

Portland is a weird place though don't they have a lot of homeless but also a lot of rich people too

It's going to be the norm to see places where 60% and above of the adult population PERMANENTLY UNEMPLOYED. If Basic Income doesn't come in soon, America gonna look like Afghanistan.

 

[Contrefaire]

This was 20 or so years in the making though. You speak as if all of this happened within the past 3 years. Hundreds of businesses opened and closed since the 1st cry of Walmart is driving out small businesses. If it wasn't Walmart, it would've been some other business doing the exact same thing.

I'm really not. Elsewhere in the thread I actually specifically mentioned how this has been Walmart's strategy for decades.

That being said...THIS?!

If it wasn't Walmart, it would've been some other business doing the exact same thing.

Now this is just false. "Some other business" simply couldn't do what Walmart (and subsequently Amazon) did because Walmart was able to operate at a loss for much longer because their analysists and accountants projected that within X number of years they would dominate multiple industries if they kept being aggressive which made investors all the more generous and lenient. Few businesses are able to sustain themselves while facing year after year of operating in the red (and without a certain level of political influence) the way Walmart did because they just don't have the backing to undercut competitors and eat those losses in the short term.

 

[Wildhundreds]

I'm really not. Elsewhere in the thread I actually specifically mentioned how this has been Walmart's strategy for decades.

That being said...THIS?!



Now this is just false. "Some other business" simply couldn't do what Walmart (and subsequently Amazon) did because Walmart was able to operate at a loss for much longer because their analysists and accountants projected that within X number of years they would dominate multiple industries if they kept being aggressive which made investors all the more generous and lenient. Few businesses are able to sustain themselves while facing year after year of operating in the red (and without a certain level of political influence) the way Walmart did because they just don't have the backing to undercut competitors and eat those losses in the short term.

Some could, just not at the level of a Walmart/Amazon. Kroger and Publix comes to mind right away. I have no problem with the mom and pop small business, but as humanity evolved in america, we've become extremely gluttonous consumers. To the point where the mom and pop stores would've come to a end anyway. If it wasn't Walmart, it would've been something else.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

People "cried" when Walmart was killing local small businesses because they decimated entire towns and industries in one fell swoop by virtue of them being a "cheaper" one-stop retailer alone.

Now people are "crying" because after making themselves the only available job in town, Walmart is closing stores with zero regard for whatever remaining employees they still had.

This isn't actually the confusing contradiction you're making it out to be.

So there's new opportunities now. Didn't say I was confused brother just amused. Keep up now.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Some could, just not at the level of a Walmart/Amazon. Kroger and Publix comes to mind right away. I have no problem with the mom and pop small business, but as humanity evolved in america, we've become extremely gluttonous consumers. To the point where the mom and pop stores would've come to a end anyway. If it wasn't Walmart, it would've been something else.

Yessir. Natural evolution of the convenience curve. We want it cheaper faster. Small stores cannot satisfy our gross consumerism. That's reality. Another big box one stop shop will take the reigns .. convenience is killing modern humans. In reality Amazon already does everything cheaper and faster than Walmart. Also has worse employment opportunities. But that convenience tho.

 

[BlaccSunrise]

Walmart sucks. They don’t have the baddest women anymore either

They all went to Target and Publix.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Breh......you really believe it's about shoplifting? A business that's notorious for under paying workers, not staffing stores appropriately, and price gouge their vendors. Seriously.......come on.

I don’t think it’s the sole reason, but big box stores have a lot of internal theft, so with the shoplifting, I can believe they are losing profits.