• lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah and they killed shopping malls. Never buy anything from there, might as well sail the high seas.

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          Before Amazon were malls, before that, the big stores came along like shopko, Walmart, etc. which still persist. But of you go back far enough you get “Department” stores, mainly in the big cities 100 years ago.

          As an aside, the stock market has also always been fucked. All the way back to the beginning like Jay Gould and the rail company corruption.

          The system has always been against us.

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          Anyway Amazon didn’t kill shopping malls. Online stores in general killed shopping malls. All of the businesses that we usually in the malls started selling directly online, so they shut themselves down.

          Then it got confusing because then Amazon introduced the affiliate program and then you could buy things from all the retailers through Amazon. But the malls were dead by then anyway.