Will all the small business be replaced by chains and franchises?

[Big Brain]

I know this Covid thing is so fake. Right?

heresy

 

[sherdogwantedtonamemekiki]

Yeah, but all the bars will be like Buffalo Wild Wings, or some corporate shit.

Doubt it. Would you rather go to a dive bar or a Buffalo Wild Wings? I'd rather go to a dive bar, because they have a better atmosphere. I'd think a lot of people would rather drink in a dimly lit dive bar where they can drown their depression too. I lived in a small city of 10,000 people where there are two streets with 3-5 bars right next to each other. And the only thing that's changed with one of them is that the name changed and it went under new ownership.

 

[Papi Chulo]

I know this Covid thing is so fake. Right?

Teh Covid is not fake, but the response of governors has done more damage to society than covid could ever do.

 

[BIKES!]

Most franchises are locally owned, and not corporately owned.

That's kind of the idea of Franchises, most have a very small percent of corporate locations. Chick Fil A is the best franchise because they don't allow multi unit or passive owners. They must operate that gold mine.

The best fast food chains are not franchised. In N Out and Shake Shack baby!

 

[PHATV]

That's the plan.

Exactly, put all the small businesses and the small-time people who own an apartment building or a couple rental houses under and allow bigger fish to steal their holdings for pennies on the dollar after closing the small businesses and stopping rent that the smaller fish needed to survive and pay for their holdings.
Let corporate groups and massive real estate holding companies scoop them all up.

 

[PHATV]

The OP did not mention partisan politics at all. Your tribal brain won't let you go 2 seconds without trying to devolve everything into partisan shitflinging.

Not to mention the states where this is happening are all the ones controlled by dem governors---and a couple (R)inos like DeWiener here in OH.

 

[BIKES!]

Teh Covid is not fake, but the response of governors has done more damage to society than covid could ever do.

Stop having a brain that doesn't operate in yes/no binary fashion. Complete and utter retarded brainwashed zombies think any questions or challenges against the government mean you don't believe Covid is real.

These simpletons can't have a healthy discussion without reverting back to TDS designated memes and catch phrases. flu bro derp.

 

[ineverpost]

It just occurred to me that someone that wants to set up their own business needs to save up for like a decade. Then make a business plan. Then get a loan from a bank using their decade of savings as collateral. That takes a looooong time. So, the small businesses that all got shut down aren't getting replaced by new small businesses any time soon.

Meanwhile, big chains and franchises already have their business model made. They have access to lines of capital. They can just swoop in to the empty buildings and set up shop 1 week after everyone is vaccinated the pandemic is over.

Are all the bars going to be replaced by big corporate sports bars and stuff? Restaurants replaced by franchise restaurants?

That's not true you can quickly get all you need to start a business for just a small loan of a million dollars from your dad

 

[Paradigm]

Its amazing that all you are concerned is about how someone is voting. As though small businesses in New York or California are booming or something, and only red states got hurt by the pandemic. The idea that someone may be genuinely concerned about an issue is foreign to you. All you care about is whether I am going to go stand in line and check the blue box instead of the red one, because you are a programmed puppet.

The guy you are arguing with is one of the worst WR posters.

That is all.

 

[Sketch]

Exactly, put all the small businesses and the small-time people who own an apartment building or a couple rental houses under and allow bigger fish to steal their holdings for pennies on the dollar after closing the small businesses and stopping rent that the smaller fish needed to survive and pay for their holdings.
Let corporate groups and massive real estate holding companies scoop them all up.

The second they kept the schools open but closed the small businesses anyone with half a brain could see the writing on the wall.

 

[tenniswhiz]

It just occurred to me that someone that wants to set up their own business needs to save up for like a decade. Then make a business plan. Then get a loan from a bank using their decade of savings as collateral. That takes a looooong time. So, the small businesses that all got shut down aren't getting replaced by new small businesses any time soon.

Meanwhile, big chains and franchises already have their business model made. They have access to lines of capital. They can just swoop in to the empty buildings and set up shop 1 week after everyone is vaccinated the pandemic is over.

Are all the bars going to be replaced by big corporate sports bars and stuff? Restaurants replaced by franchise restaurants?

What is a “corporate sports bar”?
Like Hooters?

 

[Grassshoppa]

I didn't believe this at first but the more this goes on the more I think the US is purposely being destroyed from those within and outside. Think about it... slow vaccine rollout, massive aid going overseas but not to our own citizens, small businesses being destroyed, no financial support, massive backup of cars at food banks, etc.

 

[wlu.29]

The plandemic is a war on small business.

Right that is why macys and hudson bay are going out of business, whereas shopify a platform for small businesses is at all time highs?

 

[wlu.29]

Hey look guys

Billa gates is out to get small businesses

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...0/microsoft-retail-stores-closing-cities-open

 

[Gas121]

Yes small businesses will be finished and are already disappearing at rapid pace. Chains and franchises are already taking over the world.

Covid is making way for this to happen even faster but we might as well embrace it..

 

[HunterAcosta]

What is a “corporate sports bar”?
Like Hooters?

Yeah and Dave and Busters .

 

[OhBam]

heresy

 

[Grassshoppa]

Say goodbye to all small restaurants in San Francisco. Indefinite lockdown.

https://sf.eater.com/2020/12/31/222...ockdown-quarantine-shutdown-outdoor-dining-sf

San Francisco’s Lockdown and Quarantine Has Been Extended ‘Indefinitely’
Outdoor dining will be shut down well into 2021

by Eve Batey Dec 31, 2020, 11:21am PST

An indefinite extension of San Francisco’s stay-at-home and quarantine orders means dining districts like Fisherman’s Wharf will remain quiet well into 2021

San Francisco’s stay-at-home order, which was tentatively expected to lift as of January 7 2021, has been extended “indefinitely,” Mayor London Breed and Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax announced Thursday. In addition, officials say, the city might keep its stay-at-home in place even after the state lifts it, depending on “key health indicators.” That means that activities including outdoor dining will remain forbidden in San Francsico for an unforeseen length of time.

The announcement was a surprise to those who attended Colfax’s final address of the year, which was delivered on December 29. While he warned that New Year’s Eve gatherings could be “catastrophic” for the area’s COVID-19 case rate, he also said that the increase in positive coronavirus tests was leveling off. He did not, we should note, make any indication that the city expected its current lockdown — which the region entered voluntarily on December 6, and was made official by the state on December 16 — would continue past next week.

In a press release sent by San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management on December 31, the officials wrote that “due to ongoing regional ICU capacity limitations and continuing increase of cases, San Francisco does not expect the Bay Area will meet the State’s thresholds for lifting the order” by January 7. That’s probably a reasonable expectation: The state requires the full Bay Area region, which includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, Monterey, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, and San Francisco counties, as well as the city of Berkeley, to demonstrate that 15 percent of its intensive care unit hospital beds are free. At present, while San Francsico has around 32 percent availability, the region at a whole is at 7.5 percent.

The stay-at-home extension announcement was a disappointment to Laurie Thomas, the executive director of local dining lobby the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. “This is not the news we had hoped to hear,” she said Thursday morning, even then acknowledging that “given the 7.5 percent regional ICU capacity number posted yesterday,” she knew then that the Bay Area was “unlikely to be released from that order on January 8th.”

That said, Thomas says that she’s glad the announcement was made now, as opposed to next week, when many assumed the order would be lifted. “We appreciate the city’s effort to provide businesses with more advance notice for planning purposes,” Thomas says, and “we appreciate the recently passed federal COVID relief bill,” but “we continue to stress that we need more financial relief from the city of San Francisco, the state of California and the federal government.”

In addition, officials say, a public health order implemented on December 17 that requires “anyone traveling, moving, or returning to San Francisco from anywhere outside the Bay Area” to quarantine for 10 days has been extended past the initial end date of January 4. It’s a decision that “responds to the significant prevalence of the coronavirus throughout the State and Country,” officials say, and is intended to protect “against the spread of a new variant of the virus detected recently in the United Kingdom, Colorado, and California.”

Even after the region’s ICU bed numbers allow the stay-at-home order to be lifted, the city might still be shut down, Breed and Colfax say. “Once the State lifts its Regional Stay at Home order,” only then will SF “reassess the key health indicators to determine if they support relaxing the current restrictions on businesses and activities, and resuming the measured re-opening process,” they say. In other words, even after the state says that activities like outdoor dining can resume, San Francisco might continue to restrict restaurants to takeout and delivery.

One reason San Francisco might keep the stay-at-home in place is that, so far, it seems to be working. “Though cases continue to climb, they are increasing at a slower rate than when the orders were implemented,” the city said via statement. “As a result of our collective actions, more than 400 deaths may have prevented.”

“We have been proactive in putting the stay at home order and travel quarantine in place to protect San Franciscans and in the hopes that by acting quickly, we could flatten the curve and re-open faster,” Breed says. “This seems to be working but we need more time to determine that we are moving in the right direction and that the December holidays don’t set us back. There are glimmers of hope and now is not the time to let up.”

 

[White Whale]

Exactly, put all the small businesses and the small-time people who own an apartment building or a couple rental houses under and allow bigger fish to steal their holdings for pennies on the dollar after closing the small businesses and stopping rent that the smaller fish needed to survive and pay for their holdings.
Let corporate groups and massive real estate holding companies scoop them all up.

The politicians work for the lobbies and big businesses.

 

[BIKES!]

Bars will never be replaced. Especially, if society gets as shitty as that. No one would want to be sober anymore. Drinking would be at an all time high.

I think we are already there sadly