| ▲ | g947o 15 hours ago |
| These bastards drove out some nice stores near me (supposedly the lease ended and did not renew) and rebuilt the buildings in order to open an Amazon Fresh location. That Amazon Fresh store never opened. Now we have a giant empty storefront nobody uses. |
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| ▲ | bumblehean 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Same here. A local grocery store and several other local businesses got bought out and demolished so Amazon could build a new Fresh store. I guess Amazon pulled out of the project halfway through, since for the last ~2 years there's been a half-finished building just sitting there completely abandoned in our town center. |
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| ▲ | nebula8804 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of the time they made towns all around the US do a dog and pony show to attract "HQ2" and then just located it where Bezos wanted to be all along. I remember AOC getting it right all along, she did the most milktoast of pushback in her district and it caused Amazon to huff and puff and just walk away(causing many property speculators to lose out). She got raked over the coals but a few years later and the place HQ2 ended up didn't fare so well. AOC was vindicated. My hope is that more towns learn from your experience and don't tolerate this nonsense anymore. |
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| ▲ | darknavi 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's the same story over and over again with large businesses. See Boeing and WA state as well. What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) by Thomas Frank goes into this in part of it. While a bit repetitive (because history) the book is quite good. | | | |
| ▲ | khuey 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > milktoast fyi since you may not have ever seen it spelled before it's milquetoast | | |
| ▲ | nebula8804 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | I often make spelling and grammatical errors due to my declining typing ability. At least at this time that can help prove that I am not a bot for the time being (I think?) |
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| ▲ | netsharc 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | John Oliver analyzed state's tax rebates, 8 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bl19RoR7lc , he concluded that giving 1000 people Ferraris to drive around a pile of $30 million cash on fire would be more fiscally responsible... | | |
| ▲ | nebula8804 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | I found it pretty funny when Mayor Mamdani of NYC pointed out that the people opposing him spent more money trying to stop him being elected than they would end up paying in increased taxes. It really is a game to those people. They can't bear to give up one cent or one ounce of control. Another funny story was that some substack writer (whom I forget sorry) noticed that Bill Ackman subscribed to their substack and used a 30% off coupon ha ha. | | |
| ▲ | NickC25 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Jeff Bezos in FY 2024 filed for, and received, a $2k child tax credit. While the company he was the founder of passed over a trillion dollars in market cap. | | |
| ▲ | lmm an hour ago | parent [-] | | If it's a good tax credit, incentivising something society wants to incentivise, then everyone it applies to should get it; that helps social cohesion. If you make billionaires ineligible for tax credits they'll oppose them (and why shouldn't they?) |
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| ▲ | happyopossum 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wait, how does a store that never opened drive out an existing store? That’s not how commercial leases work… Given that a supermarket abandoned that location, and Amazon never opened on their either, perhaps that location or the lease price simply doesn’t work for a grocery store? |
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| ▲ | g947o 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The tenants needed to vacate before the owner tore down the building. | |
| ▲ | esseph 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They got word of the development and decide to not renew their commercial lease? Then you either move business somewhere where you don't have to directly complete, or shut down. |
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| ▲ | knowitnone3 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| sounds like you have an opportunity to open a grocery store? |
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| ▲ | barbazoo 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But for a brief moment there was a chance it would make the shareholders more wealthy. Surely that’s worth it. /s Wondering what the municipality’s responsibility there wrt zoning. |
