Who is killing Retail?

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millennials

>>130660723
Jeff Bezos.


>JK it's all the minorities and other retards I don't want to have to deal with by going to a store.

>>130660723
me

The internet. How many of you have Steam installed on your PC or have an account on Amazon? If so you're part of the problem.

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>>130660723
I suppose we are.
But then again the amount of capital being spent by amazon to be a loss leader is an issue that has never been addressed.

Mom and pop stores do not run their stores this way and in fact it is impossible for them to do so without huge amounts of investment.

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>>130660960
>implying this is a problem

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Crunchyroll.

>>130660837
What the fuck kind of green text is that

>>130660723
taxes
niggers
online shopping
people hate each other
lazy fucks
everyone is anti-social on their phones all day
what's the point of going out when people don't even look up from their phones anymore

ur bourgeois mom

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My liberal roommate believes that Amazon has gotten where it has gotten because of unchecked capitalism. He bought into the meme that ALL CEO s are greedy and do not give more money to employers. He believes when capitalism is unchecked you have stuff like Amazon destroying the retail industry.

He also told me last night that we need to adopted more democratic socialism since it would fix this issues with capitalism. He claims we dont need full blown socialism just democratic socialism like what Bernie has been pushing. When i laughed at him and said socialism promotes laziness he claimed I'm a dumb republican who thinks socialism is communism and went on and on about how the republicans and myself are wrong for not considering socialism. He refused to believe that socialism is a slippery slope to communism and said I was just "uninformed"

Even When My roommate tries to be centrist he comes off as a smug liberal. He insists Obama and his admin are not to blame for ISIS but believes Bush ruined is with the Iraq war and hurt the economy. The double think is amazing.

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How have none of you realised it's the Jews yet?
Stay napping sheeple

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>>130660723
(((them))), the globalists

Its part of an overall scheme to move all content and programs to cloud based services.

Where they can summarily be destroyed at the push of a button.

> no more apps, they were all on the servers
> no more movies or music, they were all on the servers
> no more porn either
> and the phones and computers had kill switches put on them in the past few years's OS updates
> no phones or computers to peruse anything that did get saved

all of our work, all of our content, it will all be gone, erased from history

>>130660723
Interwebs

>>130660723
Internet being more convenient. Who wants to go outside?

>>130663986
This.

>>130660723
>Who is killing Retail?
Corporations eating their own

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>>130663406

Strasserism is what we need, tell him to look into that very closely.

Its basically Nazi Germany but without a focus on the racial issues. Just the government making sure everyone does their part, and gets what they need, without trying to replace daily business.

>>130660830
>millennials
Can't be millennials. Wall Street strapped them with $1.7 trillion in student loan debt. The banks won, retail lost.

>>130660723
No one since it isn't going anywhere and although you NEETs don't have jobs or leave, a lot of people still prefer going to a store than buying shit online.

T. Works for major retailer with "insider" info that it isn't going anywhere

>>130660723
Nobody is killing retail, retail is changing from many small stores to fewer larger stores. You no longer go to retail just to buy stuff, retail has become part of your entertainment.

>>130660837
Who the fuck are you quoting, Brockpuppet?

In the future, driving will only be for the super wealthy.

>>130663406
>He bought into the meme that ALL CEO s are greedy and do not give more money to employers.

>he fell for the humanitarian billionaire ceo meme

>>130660723
The free market.

Nobody wants to go to blockbuster when you can rent a movie cheaper/faster online.

Same rule applies to literally everything else we buy.

It's progress, anon. Don't fight it. You'll lose. Embrace it. A lot of money to be made, and there's plenty to go around.

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>>130660837
Newfag ALERT

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Who destroyed the retail biz?
Who's not having enough kids?

Millenials, millenials!

Who racked up those student loans?
Who's not buying brand new homes?

Millenials, millenials!

Who won't act their goddamned age?
Who demands a living wage?

Millenials, millenials!

Who makes the country a big wreck?
Who owes us a pension check?

Millenials!
Millenials!!

>>130666961
Boom - this man gets it.

I pay a disgusting amount of money for 200Mbit, soon to be 300Mbit at home, so that I can download or stream blurays to my 1080p projector. Mostly so I don't have to bother leaving the house.

Um, rental is dead. There is no killing left.

>>130667117
Nothing pisses me off more. Period blood is absolutely disgusting!!!

>>130660723
Retail killed retail.

Like everything else in the west, retail does not want to admit it is responsible for it's own actions.

>>130660723
Bump

>>130663986
Better get them harddrives backed up bois

>>130663406
>socialism
>punishing working people to support ussles parasites

yeah totaly fair, buy him a ticket to venezuela so he can see real socialism

>>130668763
I came here to post this. rampant consumerism has locked us all into a rat race wherein any free time we have we would rather spend relaxing at home and now thanks to the internet we can purchase a lot of consumer goods online and have them delivered straight to our door. Literally the only people in line at actual stores (other than grocery) now are fucking retarded boomers that don't know how to use a debit card and hold up the fucking line for 3 hours.

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You do, lazy burgertards

>>130660723
China. Well our politicians, really. Who cares, fuck retail.

>>130668275
Good job

>wages stagnant
>unpaid internships
>cost of living increasing faster than wages

Yeah it's all on the millennials

>>130668275
Bravo the best remix I have ever heard.

>>130669270
>Who cares
You would if you weren't a retard and actually modeled the situation out in your head.
>Clothing factory gets outsourced to China. High paying local factory jobs gone. But t-shirts are cheaper so it all balances out right?
That's great. Except there are other things that can only be provided locally at local prices.
So while somebody with a McJob in place of being a production labourer can still afford a t-shirt they can now no longer afford a home. Or a car. etc.
Boomers talk shit about responsibility and how a 3 dollar per year minimum wage is too high and yet my father moved out at age 16, snagged a part time job at a gas station, could afford a car, his own place, party every weekend while saving up and putting himself through a couple of years of university (but eventually dropped that ambition and went into production labour) The first house he owned he purchased for about 1/3rd of his gross annual income. And sure it was a fixer-upper but you can't get an empty lot anywhere important for 1/3rd of your annual income anywhere these days.
The entire economy has been fucked over. individual figures are fucking meaningless. A teenager could go out and get a McJob, buy a beaten up old muscle car and smoke weed every day, go to University and still have enough money left over to save up and buy a house with cash.

>>130668275
Love it

>>130660723

e-commerce. And mostly Amazon.

Amazon sells anything retail does and can get it to your house within a couple of hours. They've recently bought Whole Foods, and will probably start offering pharmaceuticals next. On top of that, They own the washington post and have a shit load of influence on retards. Not even Walmart can touch Amazon at this point.

>>130660723
Online stores and itself
I got a summer job at Kmart
>19 hours a week
>Split across 4 days
>Working 4-5 hour work days and not even getting good hours

Working retail is almost a complete waste of time. They take up just enough of your time so you can't do anything else. And they were basically hiring anyone that could walk through the door and had a pulse. Even stupid people working there know they are getting screwed. Which is a demoralized work force.
And in Kmart's case the store feels old and has not updated itself. They have registers there that take 20 minutes to restart. And 2 out of the 4 price checkers are broken. Meaning I have to the other side of the store to check a price on an item.
And I've worked in other retail stores and brick and mortar stores.
They are quickly becoming warehouses for quick pick up and people to get dimensions/try out products before they order them online. Why buy a pair of snickers in store and when you can check the fit in store and buy them on Amazon for 20$ off and free shipping.

>>130668275
>>130660830
Its not millennial's fault that we had a massive recession in our young upstart years and couldn't get jobs, now we can't get hours to actually make a living to move on to other things in life. And this just goes to show that our generation has gotten all the negative side effects the past 2 decades

>Major recession
>No money saved up
>No work experience
>Debt for college
>Still no money because trying to pay of student loan debt
>Internet and social media has rekt our ability to communicate and connect with each other

We got the short end of the stick at every point of this rigged game

>>130660960
Solution dumb-ass

>>130660723
>>130663406
> believes when capitalism is unchecked you have stuff like Amazon destroying the retail industry.

Capitalism doesn't need to be checked. Amazon isn't killing companies, the companies are doing it to themselves by not competing to stay relevant.

>>130670752
Sorry for the grammar issues there. I get pretty fucking heated when we're talking about the economy and millennial's

>>130669520
It's this combined
>>130669217
With this
>>130666961
And this
>>130661252

Consumerism plus lack of community and addiction to technology plus the depression of a weak economy and low wages/absurd housing costs. We are LESS DIRECTLY INTERACTIVE than ever in human HISTORY. We want to "medicate" with empty products and experiences, but because we hate the lack of meaningful interactions in our lives, we purchase online, where we can just get the product without being reminded that we're becoming fucking husks.

>>130671107
We've literally been trained to want nothing tangible in our lives. Like instead of a collectible toy or a book, my brother's kid wants DLC as a gift.

>>130660723

Besides Amazon?

Nignogs.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yJN7PjQ6St4

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>UGH, THESE SPOILED MILLENIALS! Don't they all know that the real value in life is spending your free time playing hoop and stick while walking to your physical book store and paying extra money to get a hardback? You have to do that or else you're a transhumanist Comie who doesn't go outside. REEEEEEEEE

Someone told me that Trump is "king of the boomers". It's entirely accurate, but the refreshing thing is that he's a boomer who isn't a fucking Luddite.

>>130660830
>get paid slave wages by Baby Boomer bosses
>Boomers also complaining that you don't spend enough
>also complain that you don't save enough

>>130660830
clever clickbait for retarded facebook boomers

every generation below theirs is slowly killing their diversified stock portfolio because they're conscious consumers and not because they're poor as fuck

>>130671277
There's some hope, still. You have to look at what you CAN do, and this is where family is important. My son loves books, playing outside, painting, music, etc. He also loves educational TV. Today, you gotta find balance and forge your own community, because society is becoming a skeleton in its own.

>>130672028
Nah. I just press f for humanity baka
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>>130672148
Oh, on its own (outside of what you can do in your own family/circle of friends/church), absolutely. It's fucked to death.

F