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As a former PM Supervisor at Kmart, I think I just got mildly triggered by the K-Mart's store closing part. That liquidation process was hands down the most monumentally stressful and hellish period of my life. Fuck that company and everyone who turned up to plunder it.
i was talking to regional manager about it the weekend before last and he mentioned that kmart has relatively good pay and benefits and that, that what was ultimate brought them down.
was this true in your experience?
Damn employees expecting to be fairly compensated for their labor. Don't they know they're literally stealing from the executive's bonuses?
that's why i asked; working in retail myself taught me that upper management was detached from reality and i suspect that was the case here was well.
Vulture capitalism. These VCs come in and take out a huge loan to buy these established companies, then the company becomes responsible for paying the loan, and the company also pays the VC "management fees" then when the company is a hollow husk of what it used to be they start selling off assets and closing stores. Kmart, Sears, Toys R' Us, Circuit City, Party City, Payless, etc etc etc. This is how Thiel made his Billions and what Vance did before pretending to be a politician. Lately they've been going after the funeral home industry and veterinary clinics.
It makes you wonder if it'll ever stop before it hollows out everything
Considering these people are in charge of the only systems capable of regulating them, yeah probably not. And if you won't sell them they'll force you into foreclosure and buy you up even cheaper like JD Vance's Acretrader has been doing to farms.