Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "How Dollar Stores Quietly Consumed America" video.

Many of those romanticized small stores in impoverished flyover country were expensive and sold at such high markups they could and did often restock from retail stores in larger towns. Those were easy to out-compete because customers in poor areas are under pressure to minimize travel time and cost along with prices. HOWEVER as the video points out when dollar stores become local monopolies they can then raise prices just like the stores they replaced! There was never a convenience store near every trailer park but the power of dollar stores enabled serving those markets with ubiquitous facilities. BTW If the US want's better worker benefits (which it does not as the public are easily brainwashed) it could legislate them and workers could resume the struggle to organize labor, but that's not going to happen for too many reasons to fit in one thread. It's easier for employers to buy media and politicians therefore public mind share. This turns people functionally disadvantaged by labor policies into advocates for those policies. The only "solution" is individual escape and avoidance because the US economy is the proverbial bucket of crabs.
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