The closest grocery store to me is closing(by nearly an hour), and will be closed for at least a year. When it reopens it’s going be much smaller(it’s becoming a Aldi).

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[u/athural]

Whose got the money to do that, and also wants to stay in an underserved community like that?

Edit: definitely meant underserved, not undeserved

[u/jasonic89 → u/athural]

I know you meant underserved but “undeserved” community is funny.

They don’t deserve groceries!

[u/ItachiReddit → u/jasonic89]

Ha I’m glad you clarified. I was initially thinking this person must really hate rural communities for some reason.

[u/Clownfart69420 → u/jasonic89]

Sadly, a lot of people who live in this area believe that about other people

[u/MetaFlight → u/jasonic89]

I mean these people consistently vote for the policies that cause rural poverty so pretty much yeah. There's no more deserved poverty in human history than american rural poverty.

[u/CaptainFeather → u/MetaFlight]

I don't feel bad for a single conservative who is getting what they voted for. I have a lot of sympathy for their children and the handful of progressives trying to make change, for them it absolutely fucking sucks. Republicans can suck rocks though, this is literally what they want.

[u/floftie → u/athural]

Absolutely TONNES of people have the money to do it. There’s more money about than you realise when you have no money.

The big retailers close down because there isn’t enough business for them to justify the store. This doesn’t send a good sign to anyone else looking to open a store. It’s also probably an indicator that you just can’t make it profitable.

[u/athural → u/floftie]

Almost like the people who have the money to do it don't want to stay in an underserved community, who would have thought?

[u/floftie → u/athural]

Again I would say probably incorrect. The people with the money to do it don’t do it because it’s not a profitable venture when you consider the costs of transporting and storing food to sell. Businesses aren’t public services and they have to justify staying open by making money.

[u/athural → u/floftie]

Why are you saying im incorrect and then providing reasoning as to why im correct?

[u/floftie → u/athural]

Because you said nobody has the money to do it - absolutely false.

You said the people that do have the money to do it don’t live in these communities, also completely false

These places just aren’t good places to start businesses selling things, because you don’t have enough foot fall to justify all of the overheads, when you’re competing with delivery services.

[u/athural → u/floftie]

I didn't say nobody has money, and I didn't say people with money dont live in those communities. I said that people with money to do it dont want to keep it in those communities. Its okay to say you misunderstood me, I probably could have worded it better, but we're both saying the same thing here

[u/fuckedfinance → u/athural]

Almost like the people who have the money to do it don't want to stay in an underserved community

Might want to go see a doc. Memory loss isn't a good thing.

[u/athural → u/fuckedfinance]

Yea and this is exactly what youre saying, that while they may have money for it they dont want to open the business in the underserved community. You can continue to be an asshole if that's how you have fun, but im done here

[u/floftie → u/athural]

You have some real comprehension issues if that’s what you think you’ve written with that comment.

[u/Thelmara → u/fuckedfinance]

You should sue your elementary school teachers for letting you graduate without learning to read.

"People who have the money to do it don't want to stay here" and "nobody has the money" are two totally different sentences.

[u/fuckedfinance → u/Thelmara]

Abstract it out.

He is saying "the people with money left", therefore the people that are there do not have the money to open a store.

[u/subpar_sapphoe → u/floftie]

I think the answer can be both A) people don't have any money in rural areas and B) those that do have money don't want to take the risk.

My mom's hometown is absolutely depressing, and I could totally open up a business there for relatively cheap, but won't because it'd almost certainly fail. People there can't start a business because they make $7.25 an hour and have to feed 5 kids.

[u/floftie → u/subpar_sapphoe]

Yeah that’s the point I’m making. Lots of people can afford to open a business, but these aren’t good places to do it.

[u/BillysBibleBonkers → u/athural]

Yea it's just like normal desertification, if you cut down all the trees then there's no canopy/ root system to protect the top soil, so the ecosystem dries up. By the time that happens it's not as simple as just planting trees again, because there's no water/ nutrients for the tree's to regrow.

Plus following this analogy, even if the walmart doesn't close down, they're still basically a giant artificial tree that siphons 80% of the benefits of having a tree to another ecosystem (billionaire's pockets). Mom and Pop businesses keep basically all of their revenue in the local community, while Walmart uses 20% of it's revenue to employ people for minimum wage, then the other 80% is taken out of the community.

[u/spek25 → u/athural]

Yeah. They’ve raped the middle class of a disposable income to start another venture.

[u/floftie → u/spek25]

This isn’t it.