Lower-income American households are running out of money at the end of every month, the discount retailer Dollar General said as it released dismal results that drove its shares down more than 30 per cent for their sharpest one-day drop on record.
When the American economy is too rough for Dollar General…
Uhhh, warehouses also have the exact same benefit of capital labor relations and low minimum wages and they still employ far more people than retail outfits do because, again, the customers do the picking. I don’t know what to tell you. Go work at an Amazon fulfillment center?
you, a genius: so what if people working in stores are essentially servants reduced to base drudgery, literally in some cases cleaning up actual shit. This is the same as people doing actually productive labor, i’m very smart
I don’t understand why you are so belligerent.
The thread started when someone said that the move is to turn every retail Dollar General into a fulfillment center. Now you’re trying to establish that you are part the most oppressed class of workers - retail workers.
I’m done.
it is a wild thread, the introduction of economies of scale on the one hand vs I shouldn’t have to do this on the other. I’ve got no idea how this played out like this
Pain, trauma, suffering, the need to be seen, the need to be heard, the anguish of alienation.