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The store's existence doesn't destroy the mom and pop store. People voting with their wallets choose the big chain over the small store. That's not the fault of Dollar Admiral or whatever. That's the fault of those in the community that chose to save a penny. Sometimes direct consequences happen from bad actions.
It’s easy to use the “Vote with your wallet” when you have funds to do so. People can’t vote with their wallets when they are making a choice between eating themselves, feeding their children, buying the life saving meds they need, etc. That choice is effectively removed from them, they have to go with the lowest available cost. Also consider that Family Dollar only carries the high margin items and nothing else. The local stores that carry fruit and veg do so at little to no margin or at a loss, so when they go under due to a Family Dollar moving in the community often will have no access to such items even if they (Family Dollar) stays, but to then leave the area and abandon a community after killing the local stores in the name of the all mighty dollar. . . . . They are just scum.
That's an excuse. You want something slightly better now for a short time and bad for a long time? Or slightly worse now and better for a long time? If you can't make that choice properly, you deserve the consequences of your poor choice. If you assume everyone else will do the right thing so you don't have to, you also deserve the consequences to your poor choice.
Start blaming those that actually cause the issue, not the dealer. It sucks there's cocaine available to buy. Just don't buy it. If you do, that's fully your fault. Not the dealer.
Yeah but it does, though. Having a large corporation move in a poor neighborhood, and give people incentives to buy with them instead by offering lower prices UNTIL the competition is gone, leaving them with no alternative, is pretty much the same MO as Nestle giving powder milk for free to mother in Africa until their bodies would produce milk itself, leaving them with no alternative.
It's scummy greedy behavior from corporations that choose to do this. You can't fault poor people from they ng to buy slightly cheaper, it's not like they have much options otherwise.
This isn't a secret and it isn't the 1800s where news of snake oil salesmen takes 5 weeks to reach the new world.
You know all of this going into the store. You know that by shopping there, the smaller chains and local stores will leave. You know you'll then be paying more and have poorer quality. You choose to support. You can also choose to live the same way you were and not make your life worse later.
If the store wasn't there the other stores would still exist. The store being there doesn't prevent you from going to the other stores. You can make an excuse, but all you're doing is screwing yourself.
What you're saying would work if in the only one shopping there. I'm not. There are thousands of people shopping there and you can't control all of them. If I'm the only one sticking to my principles, I'm still screwed.