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[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Were those little stores actually affordable to people on the bottom half of the income scale? Grocery stores are a great example. I would go bankrupt trying to shop for groceries at the corner store. People complain about the chains but I don't recall small grocery stores ever being affordable.

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

It's true they can charge cheaper prices, and that's why they're able to put other stores out of business. The problem is, there are a lot of large-scale negative effects, but the decision of shopping there is usually beneficial on an individual level. It's the "tragedy of the commons".

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

According to the article, independent grocery stores were only 1% more expensive than the chains when the act was being enforced.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dMoNepnmHxqTbYqKlK_hiUE

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I got love coffee. One of my favorite coffee places is this place called Upper Cup in Columbus, Ohio. I order beans from them, and I was able to talk to the owner. He didn't seem like an anti-social, and when he told me he inspects the farms from time to time and sees who he imports from, so it's ethically sourced, I believed him. Let's just say he's a lying bastard and I was fooled. His coffee is still better than Starbucks. I hated Starbucks before it was cool. I hated Tesla before it was cool and it wasn't because there were a bunch of genocideers. It's because they're trash. They're absolute trash. The issue is the herd mentality. Yet we are rugged individuals and very selfish as a culture. For some reason, this type of mentality ends up creating a herd which is contrary to what their own self-perception is. I think it's just a collective self-hate that's going on here and people too stupid to see. It's a motherfucking paradox.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

...Ooookay then

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