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Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats a lot of words to ignore the comment you're replying to.

All those stores sell neccessities as well as junk, so distilling it down to simply not buying junk is reductive and dismissive. If someone needs clothes and Walmart and Target are the only places available, are they supposed to go nude? Additionally, you're literally ignoring that they said that there are not local options available to them.

Nome of what you said is particularly untrue, it's just completely ignoring the comment you replied to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, where my Mom lives, the food options are:

Walmart
An erratically pricey local grocery, that rents its building (which has a leaky roof, requiring them to move product when it rains)
Dollar General
A farmer's market that's open once a week for a few hours before the afternoon heat, a few months a year, if no events have pre-empted it, having an inventory of which about 30% is bulk-bought supermarket produce with the labels (sometimes) removed
A 90 minute drive; no trains, no buses (literally, no buses) to the next largest town

And she lives in a town people drive to, to get food, clothes, medicine, etc.

She gets as much as she can from the local grocer, for whatever that's worth; the inventory is frequently poor, & about on-par with Dollar General so far as brand-representation, goes. When tourists ask if the store has something, they get pointed to Walmart.