Basically, the company had to pay for its own buyout when private equity firms KKL, Vornado, and Bain bought the company for $6.6 billion, mostly with loans.

Because the company then had to pay off those extreme loans, they were forced to sell off their assets and property, which they leased back from the very private equity firms that now owned them.

The same thing happened more recently with Red Lobster and JoAnn Fabrics.

  • ghen@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    Nah just make the rich people pay their taxes. Then they won’t have money for stupid shit like this

    • F_State@midwest.social
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      One of the reasons they have so much money is the financial trickery that private equity employs