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[–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Coming back to say a few days later claims were "completely fraudulent."

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 210 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Potecting the stability of its shareholders was prioritized and this store -and its workforce- were deemed expendable.

Holy shit that’s cold. Ignoring the whole radical left bs, that’s insane callousness. Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Saying the quiet part out loud again. This is the only honest sentence in that whole excretion of doublespeak.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it's such an insane own goal that i thought it had to be satire, but the rest of it really does track with bailout-seeking behavior from private equity ghouls

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.

"Yeah, I made sure to lock up before I left, the fire alarm and security system were all running fine, and as nearby CCTV cameras will show I left the building and headed in the direction of home, I have no idea what could have caused the electrical issues that made them both stop functioning right before the store burned down. Of course since I lost my job, it's not really MY problem, now is it? click"

I want a Bluetooth physical phone so I can slam the receiver down and hang up with flair

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

"And no, I don't know the last location of the red Swingline stapler."

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago

It's very likely this is just bullshit. Sadly believable, but still bullshit.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Perhaps this former employee also wrote/edited and printed that sign themselves before hanging it up as a form of protest. Either way it exposes what‘s happening behind the corpo speech very well.

[–] Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world 174 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well they’re halfway correct. Having your company bought by private equity and sold for parts is domestic economic terrorism, but that’s not left wing. It’s right wing.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 162 points 1 week ago (1 children)

-Capitalists buy your company and gut it to line their pockets

"How could the radical left do this to us?"

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 108 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lmao. Is the radical left in the room with us?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 62 points 1 week ago

It's those radical left private equity firms!

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep, I'm here. Don't know at what point wanting healthcare for all made me a radical, but here we are. Guess I should go practice hating on minorities and denying science. :(

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

Psssst, here's a little tip. The ultra wealthy are a minority. Go hate with a clear conscience.

Wait am I doing this right?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All while admitting that shareholders were their top priority.

And then asking those who still support them to buy online... where no one local will benefit.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I call shenanigans on this picture.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That reddit post is the only source. It's in a mall. Even if those are real pieces of paper and a real picture of one of them, it would be elementary for some chode looking for internet points and lulz to stage it.

I'm curious to know the logic behind putting up three of these signs on the front of the same closed store, when you didn't have enough pieces of tape to hang them all and had to use a piece of tape from something else.

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 24 points 1 week ago

I had to scroll way too far to find someone questioning the legitimacy of this picture. I don't buy it.

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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Claire's is a company that is entirely dependent on a strong middle class.

When people are struggling, the very first budget item that gets cut in every family are overpriced rhinestones and lip gloss.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oligarchs: What's a middle class? All I know is the working class and, us, the upper class.

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[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah I hate the state of politics in the US as much as the next leftist right now but this is very fake. Not "doctored photo" fake, but "someone fabricated this document for clout" fake

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Thank you. Fuck people are so stupidly willing to accept any idiotic presentation as real as long as it aligns with their righteous anger.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no idea what they sold...

Thank you for your attention to this matter

...And now I don't care.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"THE RADICAL LEFT IS MAKING FUN OF OUR DECISION TO SPEND 78% OF OUR FISCAL BUDGET ON NOVELTY HATS! BECAUSE OF THIS TERRORISM WE HAVE TO SHUT OUR DOORS!"

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

'Rest assured, the C suite and board of directors will continue to funnel most of the profits generated by the company to themselves, and this inconvenience will not interrupt their revenue stream. This is the fault of radical leftists and their inability to regulate us...'

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago

Lol there's so much wrong with this.

The ridiculousness of the phrase "domestic economic terrorism" especially when it's being attributed to "ridicule by radical left agitators". And then the actual reason they're closing is because of private equity and shareholders, but obviously they can't place any blame on the sacred capitalists.

Also, ”rooted in values of family and community"? You're the place where 10 year old girls get their ears pierced by untrained 16 year olds. It's a business rooted in the American value of offering the cheapest possible products created for the purpose of breaking and being thrown into a landfill so you can go buy another.

All around a complete lack of self awareness. Get woke asshole, then you might not go broke.

[–] Trill88@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

That's a shit ton of words just to say "we suck"

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

anyone could have taped up that piece of paper.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I think it’s an allegory to the government shutdown

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[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hey guys I didn’t get the memo about shitting on Claire’s until they go out of business. Can someone forward it? Hail Soros

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Real or Not. A world with less Claire's isn't a bad thing. Store is straight trash anyways

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Not sure if this is real or not, but you'll often see companies blaming all sorts of things when they shut down, often whatever generic "bad thing" was last mentioned in local or domestic news. This is because the owners really want it to be someone else's fault and not themselves messing up how they ran their business.

But it invariably is. Had to shut down due to too much theft or burglaries? Tough shit, dealing with crime is part of running a business, and I don't see the businesses on either side of you shutting down. Maybe you should have paid more attention to how loss affected your margins.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Cory Doctorow needs to know about this new term Domestic Economic Terrorism. I feel like it fits with his Felony Contempt of Business Model.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can someone confirm this is real? Or just another product of an international troll farm?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah this seems like it was written by a troll to me. The first paragraph calling out leftist "domestic economic terrorism", immediately followed by the second paragraph calling the workers "expendable" and admitting they're trying to "protect the stability of the shareholders", and then ending with "thank you for your attention to this matter", Trump's social media calling card. It all feels a little too on the nose, like when conservatives try to do sarcasm or irony.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

"thank you for your attention to this matter" is a lil sus too lol

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Claire's is that crappy overpriced jewelry company, right? They only made sense when teenage girls went to the mall frequently, and I'm pretty sure that's not a thing anymore.

Instead of blaming "radical left extremists" or whatever, blame your crappy products. Who is your target market and how can you effectively reach them?

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[–] TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Its clear a large number of people don't know their right from their left.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Okay, so I poked around in the orignal thread and came up with some context.

Three weeks ago, this guy on IG used to work for Claires, got fired for posting studies showing most mass shooters are right wing, and has since been posting the threatening letters and recording calls from Clairs Corperate they keep sending asking for him to stfu. This specific closed branch was his formerstore! They do also accuse him personally of being a domestic economic terrorist. lol

Blaming the "radical left" is still a batshit crazy thing to write/think/announce, but at least we can see how corporate greed ghouls got there.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So two things, firstly they are not a exclusively American company, they are globally diversified, so if they are financial problems it's not a uniquely American issue, and secondly who goes into a Claire's anyway.

As far as I know the only product they sell that anyone would be remotely interested in is ear piercings, no one over the age of about 15 ever been in a Claire's ever.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Who are they? Sounds like they are racist bigoted trash. Sounds like people voted with their feet and left them out on the street.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Claire's was a chain of American jewelry stores focusing on the extremely-inexpensive end of the market. A common feature of malls back in the day, if you wanted a super cheap pair of clip-on earrings or something, that looked silver but probably wasn't, Claire's is where you went.

Their actual financial difficulties likely stem from the decline of malls, as foot traffic past their window was probably the main source of customers.

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