Opinion How are Target and Walmart open but small businesses can’t ?

[lifelessheap]

Wait until you guys realize this was all done voluntarily.

No one was forced to shut down
No one got fined
No one got arrested
No laws were passed

You chose, on your own, to go out of business

That's not true. Police were sent to shut down barbers and tattoo shops.

 

[nostradumbass]

Depends where you live but the big box stores are huge with tall ceilings and good air circulation/ventilation. They can enforce social distance and limit customers

Social distancing is easier when entire cities can only go to a handful of places?

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

That's why dems want the lockdown to continue.
They hate small business and love big business. Easier for them to take more control.

Lets all shop at communist mart..... I mean.....Wal-Mart. They are going to stop selling guns and only allow us to buy 2 gallons of water. Yeah socialism! I love the government controlling my life. Now where's my check Palosi? I need to buy drugs....I mean......feed my kids and teach them to hate freedom and whites.

Oh wait, nm, I've got some.

 

[Captain Herb]

Social distancing is easier when entire cities can only go to a handful of places?

I don't know. I'm just offering a theory for TS. Where I live they don't differentiate between a big hardware store or a small one. I stood in line for about 10 minutes today for the big one.

 

[chrisdiaz]

they are estimating that over 70% of purchases at Walmart and Target are NOT essential items.

Last time I went to target I saw a bunch of people just walking around the clothing section browsing like it was a normal day. This was a month and a half ago at the height of the panic. I couldnt believe it. I was also there to buy an inflatable pool (not essential) so I was part of the problem I suppose. I was in and out in 5 minutes though.

 

[woodguyatl]

The logistics of it make no sense. Not to mention 70% of the purchases at the big stores are NOT essential items.

Groceries.

 

[vapor&dust]

Average everyday government bullshit. Just like alcohol and marijuana businesses were declared essential. Government wants you doped up and stupid so you don't pay attention and believe they're doing a good job and re-elect them to tax you more and hand it out to their friends. Like sending China virus positive seniors into nursing homes.

 

[I am your real dad]

Oh wait, nm, I've got some.

Walmart to stop selling ammo for handguns and short-barrel weapons, ask customers to not openly carry firearms in its stores https://www.chicagotribune.com/busi...l7zc2dd6cd2bum2wu5q-story.html?outputType=amp

In the 2012 election cycle, 72 percent of partisan federal and state election contributions from family members serving on the board of the Walton Family Foundation supported Republican candidates and committees. Four years later, in the 2016 election, the same family members gave over 60 percent of their partisan federal and state contributions to Democratic candidates and committees. Should we expect a more lasting change in the political alignments of one of America’s most influential philanthropic families?

It seems, however, that this powerhouse donor family may be shifting its political support in recent years. There were reports during the 2016 election that the family was backing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Additionally, with Millennial and Gen X nephews and nieces, there is reason to believe that the younger generation may be less conservative.
https://histphil.org/2019/06/03/wal...tributions-of-the-nations-richest-family/amp/

Nice try Alice.

 

[I am your real dad]

That’s so weird because I was so sure that the most powerful man in the world running the USA was a Republican.

Just admit you’ve been duped. This is a boon for big businesses not government agencies who are slashing positions. Who is the party of big businesses again?

Except strangely it doesn’t benefit government, it benefits Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, etc.

I don't have anything against big business or small business.

I do have a problem with big business in league with democrats trying to shut down small business, and preventing people from exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and carrying a firearm.

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

Walmart to stop selling ammo for handguns and short-barrel weapons, ask customers to not openly carry firearms in its stores https://www.chicagotribune.com/busi...l7zc2dd6cd2bum2wu5q-story.html?outputType=amp

In the 2012 election cycle, 72 percent of partisan federal and state election contributions from family members serving on the board of the Walton Family Foundation supported Republican candidates and committees. Four years later, in the 2016 election, the same family members gave over 60 percent of their partisan federal and state contributions to Democratic candidates and committees. Should we expect a more lasting change in the political alignments of one of America’s most influential philanthropic families?

It seems, however, that this powerhouse donor family may be shifting its political support in recent years. There were reports during the 2016 election that the family was backing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Additionally, with Millennial and Gen X nephews and nieces, there is reason to believe that the younger generation may be less conservative.
https://histphil.org/2019/06/03/wal...tributions-of-the-nations-richest-family/amp/

Nice try Alice.

Whatever policy changes they're pretending to shift to now doesn't change the fact that they built their empire with laws bought through intense lobbying of Republican politicians. The damage is done. Main street America is a skeleton of what it once was.

So blame their millennial nephews all you want, but it won't undo their devastation of small retail businesses.

 

[I am your real dad]

Whatever policy changes they're pretending to shift to now doesn't change the fact that they built their empire with laws bought through intense lobbying of Republican politicians. The damage is done. Main street America is a skeleton of what it once was.

So blame their millennial nephews all you want, but it won't undo their devastation of small retail businesses.

I don't have a problem with big business.
I think its great they are successful.

I do have a problem with big business going in league with socialized democrats trying to stop small business from achieving success and keeping Americans from exercising their second admendment rights.
Also have a problem with big daddy Google censoring conservative voices and trampling all over the first admendment.

 

[ultramanhyata]

property rights are protected under the constitution

you sound like a kid who took a liberal acts class, got a 4 year degree and think you got life figured out

just so you know , a large portion of the reit portfolio I manage is to make sure retired schoolteachers who are the most underpaid and under appreciated segment of our society can retire with a livable income.

we purchase distressed properties either taken over by city for failing to maintain habitable, foreclosure, and reo sale - they're infested with bedbugs, roaches, mold, and often are falling apartment due to disrepair

we also face the huge challenge of fighting gang members, drug dealers, and prostitutes in the lopsided legal system to try to remove them from the property in order to make the place livable

we then spend hundreds of thousands or millions are times to make the property livable and the rental units rental - ive been shot at by MS 13 gang members, had my staffs car burned down, etc.

if it was up your government these people would be living off a $800 a month social security. As of now , ive been working for free(I suspended my salary and fees) to make sure I can help maintain my clients retirement funds

but you'r right, I don't deserve to make any money, body feeding landlord who sits back and just collects checks doing nothing

Wow. You're like the Jesus of landlords. You could probably make more money working at Subway but you want to serve humanity. Very noble. A true inspiration.

 

[ArmenianAssasin]

Wow. You're like the Jesus of landlords. You could probably make more money working at Subway but you want to serve humanity. Very noble. A true inspiration.

 

[keepemup]

Right. Unfortunately you may have to sit in a jail cell (because they really dont care about constitutional rights) but they arent winnable cases for them.

Miles M?

I've been flagrantly disobeying these 'orders' in hopes that someone attempts to violate my god-given rights. I will happy take their money in court.

 

[ineverpost]

Small businesses were already deadmen walking. Literally only salons are relevant and as we evolve to have no hair whatsoever, even they will go the way of the dodo

 

[MetalGearTrump]

Here in NC churches are allowed to be open without restriction, but gyms must be closed for at least another 5 weeks. So you can stuff 2k people in a mega church, but you can't have a few people in a gym. Of course he let the gyms and bars think they would be open today and then announced Wednesday night they won't be after they spent a lot of time and money trying to keep their businesses safe so they can open. Bye Bye Roy Cooper.

Fuck Roy cooper.

Also where did you see that its gonna be another 5 weeks? These quarantine pounds are starting to add up and I really wanna get back into the gym

 

[mudrubble]

As a farmer who grows both GMO, and non-GMO crops, I'm quite curious what exactly is a "GMO Vaccine"?

This might be clearer:

Here’s how an RNA vaccine works: rather than injecting a pathogen’s antigen into your body, you instead give the body the genetic code needed to produce that antigen itself. When the antigens appear on the outside of your cells, your immune system attacks them — and learns how to defeat future intruders in the process. You essentially turn your body into its own vaccine manufacturing unit.

Because RNA vaccines let your body do most of the work, they don’t require much material. That makes them much faster to manufacture. There’s a catch, though: we don’t know for sure yet if RNA is a viable platform for vaccines. Since COVID would be the first RNA vaccine out of the gate, we have to prove both that the platform itself works and that it creates immunity. It’s a bit like building your computer system and your first piece of software at the same time.” ~ Bill Gates

https://humansarefree.com/2020/05/b...echnology-and-permanently-alter-your-dna.html

This will be the first time in history they trial an RNA vaccine that gives your body actual genetic code to alter how your body resoends to its environment.

By trial, I mean on the 7 billions of us. Live trial.

 

[jefferz]

It’s all a hoax bruh, they just wanted to put up 5g towers while you were inside, 5G is what is killing people, it lowers your blood oxygen levels making you more susceptible to illness aka weakening your immune system “making it hard to breathe” etc,
All of a sudden you see these everywhere now,

They just started popping up everywhere during this “lockdown”
https://www.radiationhealthrisks.com/5g-cell-towers-dangerous/

Things like this are only going to get worse because the lizard people are in charge.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Wait until you guys realize this was all done voluntarily.

No one was forced to shut down
No one got fined
No one got arrested
No laws were passed

You chose, on your own, to go out of business

They're fining and shutting down businesses here though. My local liquor store (the sketchiest fucking place in the French Quarter lol) opened for a few days and they were deemed unsafe and closed. Bro I've seen people beaten half to death, overdose, there was a mass shooting half a block away, and more outside that place and they kept it open lol.