• jeffw@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This is piss poor journalism. You can’t compare 1 company to another with a drastically different business model. Tell me about foot traffic in other similar stores

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      They’re primarily comparing Target’s YoY foot traffic with itself.

      The Costco comparison six paragraphs in is just added color for the article.

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        9 hours ago

        Ok. The economy is garbage. People have the lowest level of economic confidence in decades. No shit foot traffic in retail is down. The Costco comparison adds nothing

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          8 hours ago

          Target cancels DEI, foot traffic goes down

          Costco doesn’t cancel DEI, foot traffic goes up

          Your argument falls flat on its face.

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            8 hours ago

            I mean even the article itself says correlation isn’t causation so I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that.

            I am curious why Jeff thinks Costco is immune from the economic uncertainty.

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      8 hours ago

      Idk about others but most of my “foot traffic” goes to local business and farmers markets these days. So yeah there really isn’t a 1:1 comparison that’s possible bc you do t replace a general store like target with one thing but hundreds