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jathansadowski These arguably have other concerning impacts, though not as important as the poor labor conditions. The 15/20 folks have gobbled up two local storefronts in walking distance of each other w/non-community-accessible 'grocery' stores at high rent...Permalink On twitter.com
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jathansadowski The stores might have refrigerators full of champaign, but they don't have local brands, nor the obscure ones that the health food grocery one location replaced used to carry. One of them sits at an extremely fraught location for their cyclists.Permalink On twitter.com
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jathansadowski The end result is clearly supporting a ludicrously high rent floor via VC that should have fallen, which puts pressure on local stores, and then another pressure on local grocers and bodegas, from a co that has no intent to compete on stock.Permalink On twitter.com
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jathansadowski Like Uber and it's ilk, they're running the extinction play, the goals don't just incidentally harm labor, but build towards creating an environment that will make it difficult for traditional competitors to thrive, by abusing market forces instead of facing fair competition.On twitter.com
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jathansadowski And on top of all that they're taking up major storefronts in the neighborhood with stores that give nothing back by definition.Permalink On twitter.com
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