[rideontime]

TLDR: One chain was gutted by private equity vultures, the other wasn't. Don't need an AI-generated slop article to tell me that.

[GolfPopper]

Yep. Allow and reward piracy and plunder and your society gets plundered by pirates.

[decasia]

Counterpoint: I thought it was a useful analysis — I was very disappointed when the local Joann's closed and this added a bunch of context I would not have had otherwise.

[rideontime]

As was I, but I don't see how the comparison to Best Buy supposedly aping Amazon is useful when step 1 is "don't go billions of dollars into debt for no benefit."