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Conspiracies (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002 to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I agree but a lot of mom and pop shops shut down and of course walmart and all the big names were still operating the whole time. At least here in Canada

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

We didn't need COVID for that

Give it a few years and those shops would be dead anyway - sadly

Small towns here tend to build large shopping centers near town border, which just hungers out local businesses

No need for COVID to accomplish that

Edit: and it's not just about America, but about the whole world.
Wanna tell me, that Walmart planned a coup, just for US centric sellings and the also the rest of the world stood still?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah man I know it just sucks to have it happen that fast. My neighbor owned and operated the local bike shop in our town for almost 30 years. You're right it was gonna close anyway but covid made it happen way quicker and the town is worse off in the end. The bike shop was a HUGE part of this town and now it's gone. It just is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, small town shops dying is really sad

Building large shopping centers and online retailers seem to have killed most small shops in smaller towns around here too...

COVID pretty much was the death nail, as you said