stands to reason. I can only speak anecdotally, but I havent been to a brick/mortar store in about a year, and only went to restaurants a few times in the same time span (mostly for pizza). everything I buy is online, groceries included. it’s actually cheaper.
cheaper for me, when I factor in the cost of not having to buy gas, or take time out of my day to go shopping, or travel to various stores to find the right produce or products.
instead I simply order things online & they show up at my door. it’s sort of like magic.
What i meant was, at this stage of enshittification, shopping online for things you would previously buy at local pharmacies works great for consumers - it's cheaper and more convenient, and we can find more options. I buy toiletries and household supplies online, too (and same for groceries). But we all know that this stage is fleeting (especially when there are increasingly fewer brick and mortar options). The next stage means higher prices, and possibly fewer options with less convenience.
No shit. External shrink numbers are always a very tiny percentage of operating costs. Look at rent and labor if you want to know what they're actually trying to balance.
It's idiotic that businesses fight labor so much btw. They always view labor as a controllable cost and rent as one that's not controllable, which is bullshit. Margins always have to be made, no matter what business rents the space. If labor costs across an industry increase to the point that rents don't justify running a business there, the landlords will drop their prices (after going bankrupt and losing the property to the bank and the bank losing money from that). If you keep squeezing the workers, the landlords will raise their prices. It's always capital squeezing everything out of everyone, no matter how you look at it.
I’ve sort of suspected this. Every time I read a headline that says “BigCorp is closing 100 stores because people are stealing stuff” it seems like a ridiculous reason.
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