Pretty much an issue of huge rent increases across the board, I'd guess. I agree, it's sad that what America was is quickly slipping away, basically being displaced by corporate chains. It would be tough to compete. Add increase in wages, and sooner or later you break the camel's back.
Pretty much an issue of huge rent increases across the board, I'd guess. I agree, it's sad that what America was is quickly slipping away, basically being displaced by corporate chains. It would be tough to compete. Add increase in wages, and sooner or later you break the camel's back.
Yes. Which by the article title and the lack of this infomation makes the article incomplete. It doesn’t show the whole picture of the decline of local businesses due to corporate money. It only paints the Fox News spin that there’s a “bad” Democrat out there and she talked about a business failure. Must be socialism!
Yes. Which by the article title and the lack of this infomation makes the article incomplete. It doesn’t show the whole picture of the decline of local businesses due to corporate money. It only paints the Fox News spin that there’s a “bad” Democrat out there and she talked about a business failure. Must be socialism!
Hey, all news is spin today, so not denying it ... but it's tough to find anything in-depth. Very few situations are simply explained.
Hey, all news is spin today, so not denying it ... but it's tough to find anything in-depth. Very few situations are simply explained.
I looked into your article because of this :
The Coffee Shop in Union Square, which became especially famous after regularly appearing on HBO’s “Sex and the City,” will close down this fall after nearly 28 years in business. Co-owner and President Charles Milite announced the decision to shut the doors to its 150 employees last month.Sex and the city is still a major tourist atraction for NYC so this surprised me so I dug deeper.
Looking into union square where the cafe is located it’s all over run by corporate chain restaurants. The Coffee Shop was one of that remaining no chain shop. There’s one left called Blue Water Grill but their fate is still TBD
That’s pretty major. I was recently in NYC and I can tell you just like the strip in Vegas the major streets in NYC look like a giant shopping mall of chain shit you can get anywhere in the United States.
I’m sure that the growing costs of employers started to add up for the owners especially if their landlords had big corporate money breathing down theirs necks and kept raising rent in hopes of pushing out the old. It’s going on all over America. Now you can have the exact same mircowaved pasta at The Olive Garden no matter where you travel. Fuck little Italy, go eat microwaved ketchup over soggy noddles.