Repeat themes

[rebeccmeister]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/business/grocery-wars-small-chains.html

Large, multifunctional corporations (Amazonia, Mall-Wart) outcompeting smaller, unionized businesses.

Private equity firms leveraging debt onto retail businesses.

Comments

[ivy]

The debt for dividends part is particularly rotten for the people working in a business. It's like seeing the prices of things go nuts because of the wild markets in futures and other speculative investments... when the actual thing becomes unaffordable, augggh.