Yeah. If it were legit it’d be on the other side of the gate.

Oligarchs: What's a middle class? All I know is the working class and, us, the upper class.

And then asking those who still support them to buy online... where no one local will benefit.

Well, they weren't a co-op, or a non profit. They are a private company whose reason for existence is to make as much fucking money as possible. I'm a believer in "good" companies, decent, like many B corps, but the fact is that almost always, all investors care about is money.

Domestic Economic Terrorism! Like, not buying our products! They will have to protect the shareholders and cut down on locations and staff.

Saying the quiet part out loud again. This is the only honest sentence in that whole excretion of doublespeak.

It's very likely this is just bullshit. Sadly believable, but still bullshit.

Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.

"Yeah, I made sure to lock up before I left, the fire alarm and security system were all running fine, and as nearby CCTV cameras will show I left the building and headed in the direction of home, I have no idea what could have caused the electrical issues that made them both stop functioning right before the store burned down. Of course since I lost my job, it's not really MY problem, now is it? click"

I want a Bluetooth physical phone so I can slam the receiver down and hang up with flair

I would like to know what the radical left did. I know of no campaign against them.

I don't actually think this is real because I don't think any evil lefty liberals have ever thought about Claire's in their entire lives.

If it was a list of companies that I wanted to see destroyed Claire's wouldn't even be in the top 500 mostly because they just sell plastic junk and other than being generally crap don't do anything overly objectionable.

It's those radical left private equity firms!

Yep, I'm here. Don't know at what point wanting healthcare for all made me a radical, but here we are. Guess I should go practice hating on minorities and denying science. :(

Thank you. Fuck people are so stupidly willing to accept any idiotic presentation as real as long as it aligns with their righteous anger.

That reddit post is the only source. It's in a mall. Even if those are real pieces of paper and a real picture of one of them, it would be elementary for some chode looking for internet points and lulz to stage it.

I'm curious to know the logic behind putting up three of these signs on the front of the same closed store, when you didn't have enough pieces of tape to hang them all and had to use a piece of tape from something else.

I had to scroll way too far to find someone questioning the legitimacy of this picture. I don't buy it.

They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.

Ah yes, ear piercings, get your ears stabbed by an untrained teenager with a piercing tool.

They pierce ears and sell cosmetics to teenagers

Yeah this seems like it was written by a troll to me. The first paragraph calling out leftist "domestic economic terrorism", immediately followed by the second paragraph calling the workers "expendable" and admitting they're trying to "protect the stability of the shareholders", and then ending with "thank you for your attention to this matter", Trump's social media calling card. It all feels a little too on the nose, like when conservatives try to do sarcasm or irony.

Define "real"

I guarantee it's not an official message from the company. If for no other reason, they explicitly stated the employees are expendable. Companies are never that forthright about that language.

But it could be a laid off manager griping, a laid off employee, and since it's on the outside of the story, anyone could have taped it up so it doesn't have to be actually related to being employed by Claire's.

Of course it could be also purely for the Internet.

So no, it's not 'real', is it digitally faked? Possibly but why bother, it's a piece of paper printed out and taped to a storefront, easy enough to just do it. Is it a sincere rant from an employee or a customer? Possibly. Is it purely a joke? I think this is most likely.