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I suspect the correlation between shopping at dollar stores and having significant investment fund exposure is a lot lower than you're implying.


And I'm sure those same dollar store shoppers collectively held approximately 0% of the equity in the locally owned business that was displaced.

But as price-sensitive consumers they do benefit from the substantially higher economies of scale, the productivity efficiencies of management best practices, and the lower cost of capital that comes with a professionally managed multinational corporation.


Not really. The multinational corporation harvests the benefits, while the consumer gets to continue to not starve due to inflation.


That's not true. The major dollar stores have significantly lower operating margins than comparable local groceries.


I share your suspicion.




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