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toiletobserver , in CEOs with lowest-paid US workers ‘focused on own short-term windfall’ – report

In other news, water is wet.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers

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garretble , in Salmon will soon swim freely in the Klamath River for first time in a century once dams are removed
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I hope someone is able to get this news to the salmon who have probably changed their habits over the last century.

empireOfLove2 ,
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Salmon are genetically habitual. They regularly beat themselves to death on the concrete foundations of dams trying to climb up a river that isn’t there, and have been doing so for a hundred years.

When the Elwha dam in Washington was removed, it took less than 3 years before the salmon run returned to the river upstream. It won’t take much time at all.

garretble ,
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That’s good to know. I guess that’s what thousands of years of doing the same thing will do to you.

empireOfLove2 ,
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Yep. They really can’t do anything else.

stoly ,

They have been going up the river the whole time but stopped at the dams. Now they can go up to all the nooks and crannies farther up than previous.

ByteOnBikes OP , in Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers

I love how they blamed the customers.

As if they weren’t purposely treating employees like shit and understaffing.

Over pictures of stores overcrowded with unboxed products, Oliver described dollar stores as “less like functioning stores and more like American Ninja Warrior: Retail Edition”

“That chaos isn’t a one-off mistake or the fault of those stores’ employees,” he said. “It is the natural end product of how the companies behind these stores choose to operate them. And if you think it can be bad shopping at a dollar store, it is nothing compared to what it’s like working there.”

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givesomefucks ,

It’s not just that, while per unit things may be cheaper there, it’s because they sell things in smaller sizes.

Can never remember if something was John Oliver or Daily Show, but I think Oliver did a show on it this year.

Like a bottle of shampoo might be a dollars vs $3, but the one that’s a dollar has 1/4 of the shampoo.

The more you shop at dollar stores, the more money you waste.

9488fcea02a9 ,

The more you shop at dollar stores, the more money you waste.

And the more waste goes to the garbage… This is why the earth is on fire

kent_eh ,

Companies don’t seem to understand that when employees are underpaid they aren’t able to do as much customer spending.

For all his faults, Henry Ford understood that. If your employees can’t afford your product, you aren’t going to succeed.

AmidFuror ,

"Blaming" is editorializing.

“While we believe the softer sales trends are partially attributable to a core customer who feels financially constrained, we know the importance of controlling what we can control,” said CEO Todd Vasos in a statement.

We are selling less in part because our customers have less money is not "blaming the customer." It's describing the situation.

FlyingSquid , in Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers
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Their prices get higher and higher and their stores get mismanaged from the top (John Oliver did a whole segment on this I recommend looking up). Their customers are financially constrained because they are gouging them.

Their customers are also often in food deserts. If they can’t afford to shop at Dollar General, they’re going to the soup kitchen.

FlyingSquid , in Video shows armed gang at troubled Colorado apartment building believed to have been taken over by migrants
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Ah yes, Fox “Let’s Watch the Scary Brown People” News.

BossDj , in Bugs, mold and mildew found in Boar's Head plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak

Sounds like Boar’s Head isn’t paying their inspectors enough

girlfreddy ,
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“Their inspectors” instead of FDA inspectors would be the issue.

AshMan85 , in CEOs with lowest-paid US workers ‘focused on own short-term windfall’ – report

No shit! Eat the rich

gdog05 , in Colorado hiker rescued after workmates reportedly left him on mountain

We’re a family here! I don’t know where these trust issues of yours come from…

LesserAbe ,

I don’t know, my first thought was a rewards trip I went on where I could hear the salesman on the balcony next to me talking about all the cocaine he’d been doing.

mozz , in ‘The police don’t seem to care’: in a rural California town vexed by gun violence, families search for clues on their own
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Marcus Cardenas

Dolores

Crystal Medrano

Juan Luis

Yeah I fuckin wonder why Jerry Nicholson isn’t prioritizing these cases

phoenixz , in Trump Says He’s ‘Absolutely’ Down To Put ‘Unusual Character’ Elon Musk in His Cabinet: ‘We Have To Cherish Our Geniuses’

Elon Musk is a genulius just asuch as Trump is.

Both are incompetent scammer assholes who got incredibly lucky, that’s it.

SGGeorwell , in Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook, blaming ‘financially constrained’ customers

If Americans are too poor to shop at the dollar store, I guess we might actually have to eat the rich.

xmunk ,

The dollar store is more expensive outside ephemeral purchases like party supplies… it’s cheaper to go to mass furnishing retailers, grocery stores or hardware stores and your shit doesn’t break in two weeks.

Most customers looking for extreme budget items are now turning overseas to things like temu because they actually deliver lower prices.

Dollar stores are exploitive as fuck.

cm0002 ,

Dollar general isn’t actually a “dollar store”, more like a “discount” store. They sit in-between a dollar store and traditional store. They’ll have more recognizable name brand products VS a dollar store, but the sizing might be smaller or slightly damaged packaging. They’re like a Burlington or TJ Maxx, but with smaller stores and sell groceries.

That being said, our actual dollar stores like Dollar Tree have also gotten more expensive, used to be everything was a dollar. Now many things are a 1.25 going up to 5 for the more…“premium” stuff

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot , in X Slaps ‘Spam Warning’ On Links To NPR Story About Trump Team’s Arlington Altercation Fallout

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raynethackery , in Experts raise issues with DNA, witnesses in Marcellus Williams’ Missouri death penalty hearing

Why do I get the nauseating feeling they are going to straight up murder this guy?

bzz , in [META] MBFC bot

No one wants this bot. In the last thread asking for feedback there was an overwhelming majority that did not want it. You’re attached to it because you made it. People don’t want it. It happens. Stop it.

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I didn’t make the bot. I’m working on the aggregate tool, which isn’t developed yet.

The votes were overwhelmingly more positive than negative about it. We had the vocal minority against it, but the ones who wanted it let it be known.

bzz ,

Seems like we’re not reading the same thread lemmy.world/post/18775630

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166 upvotes, 27 down. Same thread.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

Upvoting that post is not an indication of support for the bot.

Look at the comments in that post. Overwhelmingly negative feedback.

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