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If only local stores could compete with massive conglomerates and private equity.

We all know Hacker News would've done it right, because they wouldn't even have physical stores, just a mailing list sign up page teasing the yarn, followed by giving away free yarn, then jacking up the price and making you watch ads before you can buy the yarn (after the series D), followed by a "Thanks for a great journey" blog post on LinkedIn.

Is the purpose of a store to sell goods to people or to make it so you can retire after sucking it dry?

For what it's worth, I do have a 401(k), I AM holier than thee, and I don't think we should cannibalize every last business on earth and sell its organs in an alley in the name of economic growth. But those decisions are above my pay grade.

Yeah, selling goods at a store is so 2006. Everyone knows the only real businesses left are memecoins, SaaS, and consulting. Everyone else should get a real job.

Call me old-fashioned, but maybe craft stores don't need infinite double-digit growth.