You have a small shop that sells zip ties? The only place I would expect to find something like that is a big box store or a hardware store (which are all chains now).

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HelloImSteven an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Lots of art stores (not just chains) have them. Not as much variety as Amazon, but still.

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bluefirebrand 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Buying from a big box store still does support local jobs though

Like yeah, Walmart isn't really much better than Amazon in the grand scheme of things, but I would rather people be able to get stable employment at a Walmart store than have to fight it out as gig workers delivering for Amazon.

Maybe I'm overthinking it though

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bix6 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Walmart employees are historically on food stamps. Neither is sufficiently better than the other imo

	▲	bluefirebrand 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not saying that Walmart is great, but maybe that Walmart+food stamps is better than just food stamps? It's not like being a delivery gig worker is great income either