Mildly Infuriating

In the US I don't really shop at a lot of these big name department/supermarket stores but I appreciate the deprioritization of superfluous building fashion.

But from what I understand, if you compare our hospitals to those abroad, the values are flipped on their head. We have granite marble waterfront facilities with grand fountains in the lobby and the patients and health care staff are treated like ass, we have poor outcomes that bankrupt us. But at least the place we shouldn't want to be in looks sharp.

You should see Walmart in Canada. Makes US Walmart look like a luxury store.

Yeah this is what they look like unfortunately. When it comes to size, decoration tends to suffer

Dude, you're in a Walmart. You can't have peopleofwalmart.com AND have a polished ceiling. There's a reason their stuff is so cheap.

When you shop at big box stores, the money leaves the community and goes to the wealthy 0.01%ers.

But the evil of their methods is that typically once they move in there's literally no other options left. Everything else either goes out of business or your wages drop so low you can't afford anything else.

These are a blight on American society.

These types of stores didn't used to be possible for various reasons. But removal of anti-trust regulations and a focus on car-centrism have enabled this hellish combo of monopolistic box stores that can pop up, kill the competition and leave a wasteland behind in which it is both financially and legally impossible for the local population to bring back local stores.

Local stores tend to be in the older town areas where dense-buildings were once legal, and are grandfathered in. These get bought up and flattened and replaced with a mcdonalds or a gas station while the walmartification is in full swing. Then once walmart implodes there because no one can afford it anymore, walmart closes and the other chains close as well. No one can afford to replace walmart or the gas stations at scale for the obnoxious amount of land they use, but they also can't replace them with more dense buildings because its literally illegal.

I think it's a size thing. At some point it just doesn't make sense to put in a lowered ceiling, because it costs a lot of money for no purpose and still looks like shit. Large stores in Europe also have visible airducts and supports etc.

Also, some malls have rules for what tenants are allowed to do with it, either for safety reasons (water sprinklers/fire alarms) or just because they don't want to repaint or remove whatever the tenant did with it before they went bankrupt.

This is what every Meijer I've been to looks like. Yes, this is a Meijer, not Walmart.

Actually looks pretty clean to me. The ceiling having nothing but beams is pretty standard issue.

As a Texan, I'd be remiss if I didn't post about HEB:

Practically every store is different, they tailor them to the neighborhoods they're built in.

https://thcshoanghoatham-badinh.edu.vn/descubrir-70-imagen-heb-interior/

If you think this is run down looking you should see shops in other countries

What's wrong with it?

man getcho ass off ya high ass horse. ghoof aah