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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Retail Collapse 2019: Bezos realized that marriage is a form of union
 
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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
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Mister Macys posted:

Getting off break, so I don't have time to read through the thread yet, but I heard on House of Cards of all places that Walmart is de facto subsidized by the government because they pay workers so little/give them so few hours they qualify for assistance.
Is that true?
Indeed. You get so few hours/low wages that in most places you'll qualify for both SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid (insurance). And because the employees are paid lovely wages generally they can't afford/don't have time to go elsewhere and so end up spending their food stamps at the stores they work at.

Hilariously enough Walmart is against the cutting of SNAP benefits because some ridiculous portion of their profits comes from them.

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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
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JonathonSpectre posted:

Anyone here old enough to remember when K-Mart had "blue light specials?" They'd roll out a rack of pants or plates or some other loving thing and turn on a blue light and make an announcement over the loudspeaker that began with the famous, "ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS... there is a blue light special in... AISLE SEVEN!" and there would a God-damned stampede towards that flashing light.
I am. And K-Mart was always considered a low-rent place, even in its heyday. It was for people who couldn't afford to shop at JCPenney (already a low bar) and there was a stigma attached to having gotten things from there, even if they were Levis or Legos. Children being children, you would refer to the store as "Came Apart" and the "Came Apart special."

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