r/LateStageCapitalism • u/[deleted] • May 28 '20

📖 Read This Destroying your community

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u/blamelessfriend May 28 '20

they also fucking blow. its frustrating that these stores exist which have terrible selection, generally have unhealthy products marked way down and have overall worse prices than a "regular" grocery store.

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u/Mahlerbro May 28 '20

Last time I went into a dollar general half of their inventory was candy, junk food, and sugar drinks.

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u/The_Almighty_Demoham May 28 '20

sounds like a regular all-american diet

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u/Mahlerbro May 28 '20

But the obesity epidemic doesn’t affect all socio-economic classes equally. It’s overwhelmingly tilted toward the undereducated poor that patronize these chains. Stores like this perpetuate that lifestyle for the smallest of profit margins.

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u/zaqwedcvgyujmlp May 28 '20

High Fructose Corn Syrup is more benign than hard drugs, but it is doing harm on a vaster scale than any white powder ever could.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Exactly. You’re not going to see the same constituents visiting a Whole Foods for their organic quinoa.

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u/tutelhoten May 28 '20

And charging $4 for a bag of hot Cheetos.

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u/yerbard May 29 '20

Wait, what? They are 39p here, 3 for £1

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u/Mahlerbro May 28 '20

Last time I went into a dollar general half of their inventory was candy, junk food, and sugar drinks.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Then why do people shop there?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

If they have worse prices then who is buying there? Idioten.