Why is Wal-Mart (and ALL online stores, for that matter) allowed to basically steal all the market share of local stores, Best Buy, Staples, etc - just because they have 8 aisles of groceries out of a 50 aisle store? Should they not be required, by law, to tape off those sections of the store and restrict people to buying quarantine-approved products ONLY?
Keep in mind, any answer other than YES [they should have to restrict sales] is an admission that 1) this entire thing is meaningless hype, and 2) you are a liar and a fraud with no argument.
It doesn't make logical sense that we'd be allowed to risk MURDERING grandma and grandpa because we needed that new Microwave so badly, but that ONLY Hypermarkets should be able to sell it to us and not the local mom and pop shop.
Remember to untuck your dick from between your legs before typing your response. You will find the cognitive dissonance and resultant anger you feel will make things quite uncomfortable, thanks.
Why is Wal-Mart allowed to sell their luxury/other goods like Bluetooth speakers, clothing, etc, but smaller retail stores are FORCIBLY closed?
If this is such an emergency, why aren't those areas taped off and blocked, and people ONLY allowed to purchase critical supplies like food and cleaning products?
Why the fuck not? You're showing right now just how much of a nonemergency this is. Just tell people they straight up WILL NOT SELL items unless they are on a list approved by big daddy government and let that be the end of it.
Emergency, remember? Crisis REQUIRING us to "temporarily" give up our civil liberties. But they can't block TV purchases for those same so-called "only two weeks"?
You're all proving me more right with each and every comment.......no wonder this post was shadow-banned
Now THAT is a rich comment 😂😂😂 Literally 80% of state government is working from home in multiple states, but they can't figure out that stores shouldn't be selling TVs during a so-called "emergency"? Come the fuck on. Come the fuck on, why are you covering for these people? I'm right and you KNOW it. And now you're projecting that it's ME who is being stubborn.
Anyone paying attention can see what these restrictions are about: limit society JUST ENOUGH to where people don't riot or ask too many questions. They can't close restaurants altogether because then people would be forced to (gasp!) cook at home. But it would also mean a MUCH higher chance of civil disobedience happening.
You and I both know the right thing to do - and the fact it isn't being done is complete bullshit. Target, Walmart and others NEED to tape off the electronics, books, magazines, etc, and make it clear people are ONLY to buy essential goods (to support Life-sustaining functions like eating, bathing, etc).
ANY and ALL goods that would be banned for an inmate and/or immigrant in detention to possess should be banned with an ultra-low amount of exceptions (toothbrushes, candles, etc). Things that ought not be purchased: TVs, Video game consoles, furniture, mattresses, watches, hair clippers, cologne, throw rugs, toasters, microwaves, etc.
Remember, this is an EMERGENCY. You CANNOT explain to me logically WHY people can't go without cologne or microwaves if this TRULY IS an emergency, and if we TRULY WILL have these conditions relaxed "in two weeks".
Without appeal to authority, or claim I'm being difficult, or other logical fallacies and ad hominem attacks, explain why the status quo is acceptable. I dare you.
Didn't Best Buy choose their course of action?
Sure looks like it
Gdamn pesky facts! Always getting in the way of a good conspiracy theory...
Things you’ve never heard:
“I’m going to get groceries and toiletries at Best Buy”.
“Boy, that sandwich I got at Best Buy is delicious”
“Hey ma, will you make my favorite HDMI cable cake for my birthday?”
Kudos, why to ask a question like a ass hat instead of trying to have a civil conversation.
He's here one day - gotta grab attention some how...
I held up on registering here because, fuck me, I was holding out hope that Reddit might reconsider their draconian actions. Signing up here, upvoting everything, posting memes, etc, makes it crystal clear that I have to leave Reddit behind entirely after almost-daily use for almost a decade. That's almost as long as I used shitty Facebook for, and I signed up for Facebook back when you needed an .EDU to join.
No more MDE, no more Clown World, no more Groypers. They have systematically destroyed every bit of it, knowing it was much too powerful and influential. Not even joking: they determined the memes were too spicy to be allowed to coexist with the rest of cucked Reddit. This is unsustainable for a functioning democracy where most political conversations are moving online.
I would hope that people like us would believe in minimal regulations.
You'd hope, but we have a lot of liars and frauds running around.
If we say it's "OK" for Walmart to continue selling underwear, cleaning supplies, etc, because those are "essential goods" then WHY THE FUCK can't the local/rural hardware supply stores stay open? Just because you don't sell FOOD (which can and does spoil) doesn't mean you don't sell essential goods. Many stores don't WANT to sell groceries because it means stepping on the toes of the grocery store right down the street - who has agreed not to sell the products (ladders, gloves, nails/screws) the "hardware store" sells!!!
The more and more posts we see, it becomes apparent we have a lot of Big City Republicans running around and FAR TOO FEW who grew up in rural communities. They have ZERO concept of how badly these restrictions are hurting towns of 50k and smaller.
Walmart sells more than electronics, Probably cheaper for them to just shut down at the moment. No need to stay open paying to keep things running if the traffic is to low
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message
Big Government has no business telling companies how much money they should or can make to be allowed to stay open. If they want to lose $1,000 a day and sell nothing, that's their right. If Staples can be allowed to have 8 people manning a near-empty store, then the local hardware shop should be allowed to have ONE employee (maybe, I dunno, THE OWNER??) man the store, even if it means not allowing any more than 1 customer per 200 square feet of store, or some other such calculation.
Governors aren't even bothering with compromising - they're just issuing edicts. And people are actually going along with it and making excuses for it. Fucking mind-blowing! Obamacare was several thousands of pages and months of (rushed) work to get passed. These Governors are straight-up cancelling half of the Bill of Rights, and motherfuckers are nodding their heads in agreement!!
Best buy did choose to close. Most likely the local hardware store owner would rather shut down anyways if they aren't getting enough traffic to even cover the electric bill. That would be a stupid small business owner to want to stay open when THEY KNOW no one is even coming in the store and rack unnecessary bills when they can shut it all down and pay close to no bills, especially if they own the property and are not renting. No business owner in my state has been told they can't open their store by the government. The ones that have, have done so cause they know its in their best interest at the moment. You must live in a Dem run state if they are 'making' stores stay closed.
BTW, no small business ever is gonna WANT to stay open knowing they are losing $1000 a day. Thats just ridiculous. The business wouldn't last a week.
I don't know. Seems ridiculous to me. I mean Best Buy sells food and clothing, has a bakery and a pharmacy.
I've got no idea why they would allow a store like Walmart, selling consumer electronics, to stay open while closing a store that has a major supply line of fresh fruit and vegetables, drugs and other staples.
Boggles the mind really.
Best Buy sells food and drinks as well, near the front registers. They also sell many things that Wal-Mart sells, like Printers, Big Screen TVs, Bluetooth speakers, Blenders, Toaster Ovens, Cell Phone Cases, and countless other items.
Go ahead bro, let me know what percentage of your inventory should be "groceries" for you to be allowed to stay open. You won't do it, you'll lose your backbone when you realize what a small percentage overall of their business Walmart groceries/drugs are. And if you try to go by the "how they run credit cards" route, please be advised - many Hypermarkets (Costco, Target, etc) run cards as "Warehouse" discount rate, not as Groceries. And don't forget: plenty of places that don't sell a lot of groceries, DO sell lots of cleaning supplies like Lysol, bleach, mops/brooms, air purifiers, humidifiers, etc.
Your sarcasm only works in the absence of logic. In this case, I am 4 parallel universes (of thought) ahead of you. You have no chance to survive make your time
four parallel universes ahead of me?
wow
wouldn't a parallel universe be in time sync with the other universes? to be ahead would illogical.
but you're also a time traveler, because you knew not to work at best buy, so maybe you are ahead of me.
you do you sugar.
"I mean Best Buy sells food and clothing, has a bakery and a pharmacy..."
where the hell is this Best Buy????
edit: Oh, wait - I'm either lysdexic - or my sarcasm meter is broken. But I get the point. :)
I'm being sarcastic. I laid it on so thick, I didn't think I needed to tag it.
I was wrong.
They are having a 3 day sale right now. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/clp/sale-page/pcmcat185700050011.c?id=pcmcat185700050011&ref=212&loc=1&ds_rl=1260672&ds_rl=1260441&msclkid=b872abec8d821db013ccf59b2cfb249e&gclid=CN7K7t7OrugCFXupZQodIXkFkg&gclsrc=ds create an account and shop away
Awesome answer, and I agree with you completely. I didn't mean to give the impression that I am DEMANDING all stores stay open - I definitely wasn't. I want all store owners to be able to make the decision without being threatened by city/state government. My primary concerns are
what happens if (WHEN) these orders stay in place beyond 2 weeks? -- lots of smaller stores will go out of business and have their market share gobbled up by multi-national corporations like Target and Wal-Mart.
why are these asshole Governors applying these rules to towns of <50k people the same way they are to towns of several million? --- it's clear a city like NYC has completely different needs than a city like Elmira, NY or Campbell, NY. Why fuck over all those people just for NYC's sake?
This crisis seems tailor-made to cause a worker's revolt and create a class warfare power vacuum that Marxists will seek to fill. And if enough small-town businesses go under, they just might get their way. Usually those shit-stains avoid Small Town USA but if they can put enough small hardware stores, Mills, construction companies, etc, out of busines....then who knows?
The longer they go WITHOUT restricting sales of TV, furniture, etc, at so-called "grocery" stores the more it becomes clear to me that this is all a fucking farce. Want to convince the hold-outs like me?
BAN the sale of luxury items and ONLY allow people to purchase essential goods. Anything less is an admission of, dare I say it, Fascism.
why is the mathis brothers mattress store open and the taco mayo next to it cant even be open for drive through and take out? Should we eat mattresses?
Should Amazon be stopped from selling mattresses during this "pandemic"? Is this an emergency - or is it not?
Think about it - the more orders for TV and Mattresses, etc, that Amazon delivers, the less room they have on their trucks for vital groceries, grooming items and cleaning supplies like vacuums, towels, Lysol wipes, hand sanitizer, latex gloves, toothpaste, etc.
Their workers are spraying down equipment constantly, cleaning everything up around the clock, etc. In these times of emergency and national crisis, is it really OK that they're profiting on stereos and Car Spoilers and who knows what else they continue to sell?
Join me, friend, and call for the END of Amazon being able to sell ANYTHING that is not health-related during this current crisis, UNLESS AND UNTIL everyday American retail shops are able to reopen WITHOUT being harassed by politicians, government busybodies, insurance companies, or any other authority.
Your premise is faulty. Who said any store should be limited to selling only "essential" goods (whatever that means)? Any store should be allowed to stay open and sell whatever they want to (as long as it's legal). Any government that is demanding that stores close or be limited to selling certain items is out of line and acting unconstitutionally.
Solution - have Best Buy sell hot dogs at the Customer Service Counter.
Better-yet - move to a state that doesn't have 7000k infected or a liberal govt that quarantines 40 million citizens because they remember their own citizens have guns ready to train on leaders who overreach.
Why the FUCK was this post REMOVED and now people can't see the text that accompanied it?? WTF mods??
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Why is Wal-Mart (and ALL online stores, for that matter) allowed to basically steal all the market share of local stores, Best Buy, Staples, etc - just because they have 8 aisles of groceries out of a 50 aisle store? Should they not be required, by law, to tape off those sections of the store and restrict people to buying quarantine-approved products ONLY?
Keep in mind, any answer other than YES [they should have to restrict sales] is an admission that 1) this entire thing is meaningless hype, and 2) you are a liar and a fraud with no argument.
It doesn't make logical sense that we'd be allowed to risk MURDERING grandma and grandpa because we needed that new Microwave so badly, but that ONLY Hypermarkets should be able to sell it to us and not the local mom and pop shop.
Remember to untuck your dick from between your legs before typing your response. You will find the cognitive dissonance and resultant anger you feel will make things quite uncomfortable, thanks.