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Why is everything in consumer / American life so fucking shitty now - and companies literally just say 'oh bc profit margins' and we're now expected to swallow that and sympathize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like I went to taco bell and they didn't even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don't get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm with you, OP: for some reason, it's the little things I notice.

I'm in grocery stores a lot. It used to be, there was a nice little seating area there to sit, drink my coffee and work. But now, because homeless people dared to duck inside a public-facing area to briefly escape the elements, they removed many of the tables and chairs and they're now a big, empty space. Heaven forbid they add more seating, actually staff enough people to enforce a time-limit, etc; no, instead we all are worse off for it. But corporate profits have never been higher, so worth it, right!?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Take a trip to PA, all the grocery and convenience stores have added seating areas so that they can legally sell beer and wine lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They piloted this in Nashville at Kroger and something changed for them to turn around and remove them.