Small business owners in the United States constitute one the strongest bases of support for the Republican party and conservative causes. Is it purely coincidental, then, that Covid-19 restrictions imposed by Democrat governors and local officials are shuttering millions of small businesses while largely leaving their large corporate competitors not just open, but picking up market share? Democrats, unquestionably, have become the party of big business, in particular the tech oligopolists that censored news unfavorable to Joe Biden. Marxists of all stripes despise the petite bourgeoisie, a disparaging French term for small business and wealthier peasantry. Running a business and employing people qualifies one as an exploiter in Marxian terms, but in today’s elitist social circles, it also connotes small-mindedness, lack of sophistication and an alarming tendency toward self-reliance...... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/liquidating_americas_kulaks.html This is the big issue with democrats and their socialist leanings and how they treat independent minded people, particularly small businesses. You could well ad family farms and ranches to his as well. In cities and towns though it’s the small businesses who are being targeted in blue cities and states by ruinous China virus regulations. Democrats have become the party of big tech, wall st bankers, and mainstream media to push corporate crony capitalism/ socialism hybrids that freeze out independent small business and the highly skilled working class. The latter have their jobs sent to China and the former use Chinese imports to price small business out of business.
This was something Trump was addressing but Biden will likely crush heartland flyover America again in favor of the bicoastal urban elites.
We only have one indoor mall in our area and the nearest other two are 60 miles and 110 miles away. Ours has expanded and is full and numerous other businesses such as fast food, a restaurant(Outback Steakhouse), and banks are in its parking lots. It has a Sprouts, Home Goods, Old Navy on the west end, JC Penney on the East, Macy’s on the north and a food court and Ulta on the south.
Who cause this? More, who is financially reaping the rewards then? Surely not main street vendors. Guess liberals are too elite to worry about the main economic drivers of the economy and are only willing to artificially advance their very rich friends...
Big box stores nationwide have shut down thousands of their stores they are hurting just as much as the local merchants, and they employed thousands of women who no longer have jobs.
Malls are generally anchored by one or two large national chains, a few regional stores and many small businesses. Amazon et al murdered the big chains and when the malls went down the little guys went with them. Of course the Covid hysteria sealed the deal. Billionaires collectively gained a trillion dollars because of the virus, especially those whose businesses are not directly connected to the health industry. Nice huh?
Covid accelerated a change in buying habits that was already in full swing before the pandemic. Might have been more kind to cut losses quickly rather than a slow, drawn out bankruptcy over the next 5 years.
I agree that this was coming before the virus but it's pretty obvious that the online retailers didn't let a crisis go to waste. I think we all have shopped online at one time or another but what's different is the amount of junk mail in my email from places where I've shopped in the past. I must add that my shopping online was because whatever I was looking for wasn't available locally. I think there's still folks, myself included that enjoy shopping in person and mourn some of the retailers that have disappeared. It behooves us all to get out there and support our local small businesses when things are healthier.
I could be a contributor to the cause, I suppose. I haven't been in a mall in more than a decade. I know how much it costs to operate in an enclosed mall and I'm not willing to pay those margins when I can pay for smaller margins on the internet. In other words, the malls may be doing it to themselves or, put another way, malls simply could now be obsolete.
I look at it this way. I don't use malls per se, but I do support local business which was the actual point. But, I understand the reality of what is actually happening, and why , for example, that doesn't look like malls and their national branded stores might continue to be successful.
I could be wrong but I think the majority of mall tenants are national and public companies. It is crushingly expensive to operate in one. Good to support the local employees of those companies, however.
What if the whole mall thing was reinvented in such a way that it could run at a profit without dragging it out of the consumer, would you go back? I like sporting goods stores and book stores and would shop malls just for those.
Yeah, just like COVID accelerated the deaths of people who were going to die anyway. Might have been more kind to just get it over with sooner.
Because the people who often rent most of the space in those malls are small businesses boutique shops, delis and the like and Dem policies and covid crazy are destroying them right and left.
Online retailing is the driving force of the future. It sounds great advocating for the mom and pops, but when it comes down to searching all day for an item and coming up empty versus half an hour online and nailing it, guess which is gonna win out in the end.
The COVID1984 tax revolts of 2021 and after will be lovely, especially when the Complex finds that the 30 million small businesses in the U.S. comprise a huge chunk of the tax base that funds a large chunk of their excess. The cycle of windfall large crony company profits, tech monopolists, MSM, etc., is running on the vapors of $$ STOLEN from small business. Those vapors are not sustainable. When the inevitable other shoes drop, things won't be pretty for the Complex. More and more are escaping the "COVID1984 Archipelago," more will follow. Thin ice for ballot fraud and unrest. They got greedy and we will all pay.
The financial realities belie that. Malls are expensive to build, amortize and operate. Rents there are out of sight. I had a store some years ago in a regular shopping center. My rent was $3500 per month. At the same time the rent for the same amount of space in a nearby enclosed mall was around $15,000 per month. Not even close. More volume in the mall? Probably. Enough to attract me to the mall? No, too risky. I wasn't a national chain with experience at operating in malls. I was a small business entrepreneur establishing a new business. My current business is on line and operates with skinny margins and little overhead. It works because it sells to the entire nation. It would not survive in a mall. So I understand the margins required to do business there. I can visit a book or sporting goods store in a different location and save money. I can buy the same things on line and save a bundle. I think the difference between us is that you are a shopper and I am not. When I want to buy something, a find a seller and buy it. I don't go looking for things to buy.
