• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    3 days ago

    At the rate these chains are telling me to fuck off with my business and ignore them I’m gonna end up with nothing but farmer markets and crafts shows to shop at…

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        3 days ago

        It’s not even a weird twist it’s just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.

        It’s wild to me that we’ve had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to “if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn’t we at least do it in a way that won’t break literally everything?”

        Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn’t want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy “middle class.”

        Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.

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        3 days ago

        That too, though I haven’t had reason to go there just yet. Curious to see some stats over the year to see if there’s a notable bump for them due to standing against the trend to kill DEI.

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          3 days ago

          I also haven’t had a reason to go there, haha. Probably soon for diapers, though, as Target is also shooting itself in the foot.

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            Nearest Costco is about 45 minutes from me so while it looks like a decent replacement to Target, it’s going to have be a bit more planned that just pop out for a quick thing.

            Still sort of working on how to keep track of who all I need to avoid. It may only be a small amount but I’m a stubborn one when it comes to avoiding shops. The city pissed me off once so I refused to use their municipal beer shop for like a decade after.

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        They don’t sell a lot of video games at farmers markets and craft shows… You have to go to a flea market for that, and those are rather dodgy.

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            It’s moreso that the vendors seem to fall into two not entirely seperate categories.

            • The sheistiest sheister that you would be terrified to get in a van with.
            • Someone who definitely has a borderline illicit script of oxy on them and think bathing is an option, and a philosophical dilemma.
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              Holy fuck, it’s obvious you don’t feel comfortable around people you perceive as “less than you” lol. “illicit script of oxy on them and think bathing is an option” Do we have a Lemmy Uppity Award for fake narratives?

              If you actually walked around a flea market, as a human being, you would see it’s mostly families and senior citizens. You’ve selected a few “characters” for your narrative and have grossly stepped into some pompous position of enlightenment. Anyone that loves cheap electronics to tinker with absolutely gets thrilled to go to a flea market with some disposable income.

              It takes a special kind of drug induced “sketchy” person to wake up at 6am on a saturday to try and make some income, damn shame there’s people like you out there that wouldn’t give the location a chance but will walk into any corporate store without a thought to “all the shady, drug ladened CEO’s you don’t want to get into a van with”. But you can’t see them so I suppose that might make it better for you.

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                Haha I see I hit a nerve.

                This is from being dragged to one every weekend as a child… I speak from experience

                My family was in the latter of the two. Obviously I generalized a bit for comedic purposes, but there really are two type of people at flea market.

                The ones whose household income is derived from it. I don’t trust these people as far as I can throw them. They lie about their goods, it’s almost always straight from China and marked up like 10x.

                Then there are the normal people trying to make some side income. These people are usually older and skew more towards veterans. That demographic just gets prescribed a lot of oxy, and they often borrow or trade.

                It just is what it is… And I will not apologize about the shower comment. Nicest people, but most of them could use hygiene lessons.

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                  lol why did you reply with the exact same comment but doubling down on how much of a douche perspective you have? I wouldn’t say you hit a nerve, some decent people just tend to call out bigotry when they see it.

                  “They lie about their goods, it’s almost always straight from China and marked up like 10x.” …so like all the other stores? You’re entire shtick is illogical and I don’t tend to trust bigots so I doubt you have the experience.

                  “There really are (only)two type of people”. “They lie”. “These people”. “That demographic”. “They often”

                  This is how you detect bigotry everyone. It’s like if I said “Corkyskog probably thinks he’s better than others because his brain is broken or got smacked around to often”. I’m just assuming his brain is broken with no real facts because of his shit comments

                  “Corkyskog sucks two types of dicks, shit covered and piss covered” like your demographic might lean that way but to just label you as a “dirty” removed is kinda unfair and also unrealistic, you could just like sucking regular cock.

                  “Corkyskog is a pompous prick who is probably projecting, often scared and isn’t comfortable around people he deems “lesser”, is a piece of shit human being the world would be better off without” but I’m just guessing, like the “they often borrow or trade”.