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[โ€“] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Putting apartments on top of big box stores seems like a perfectly fine thing to do wherever the stores are in urban or more populated areas. The only real problem here beyond the usual landlord-parasitism is if these start being handed out to Costco employees tied to their employment status (and even then if you're working retail your living situation is probably fucked when you lose your job anyway, so I'm not sure it even exasperates that problem all that much in hellworld).

[โ€“] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean this is pretty normal already in urban areas. I have friends in NYC who live above malls that have Targets, BJs, etc. It's just a normal apartment building on the top floors and retail/malls on the bottom.

[โ€“] peppersky@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this is normal in literally every country besides the united states

[โ€“] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

No what I'm saying is this is normal even in the United States, just only in the non-terminally carbrained areas

[โ€“] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Costco is the company that I'm the least concerned would do stuff like that. Their employees have the best compensation in the industry.

[โ€“] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're still regularly denied a Union though.

[โ€“] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are there any corps that welcome unions? It seems like all unions require some amount of force against the business.

I mean, yeah, very true, that's class interest at work.