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Seattle Bookstores Embrace Amazon.com
An anonymous reader writes "Even though many independent bookstores around the country blame their closing on competition from Amazon.com, bookstores in Seattle are booming thanks to Amazon's growth. It turns out many of the thousands of new workers at their downtown headquarters are avid readers who prefer shopping at the local stores. '"A lot of our customers work at Amazon," said Tracy Taylor, the general manager at the Elliott Bay Book Company, one of the city's largest independent booksellers. The store, about a mile from Amazon headquarters, last year earned what Ms. Taylor called the "first substantial profit" in almost 20 years, enough to even pay employee bonuses.'"
I'm a Republican, so personally, I adore hiring minorities, calculating what they need as a "living wage", and then paying them less, just because I can. Then I can fire them for being homeless when they can't make rent. I have quite a collection saved up, panhandling outside the front door of my shop.
I'm actually trying to render people destitute in alphabetical order of their country of origin. The first was an Albanian, then someone from Barbados (fucking niggers), then Cambodia. I'm at 'H' right now, but I'm still looking for a Haitian that doesn't smell like shit. The funniest thing is, they're all absolutely wonderful people, and it just tickles me pink to see them volunteer at the soup kitchen, and then get in line for the fucking free soup!!!
Yep, they all made shitty decisions, and I believe that, because that's simply how stupid, evil, and soulless Republicans are. My ancestors were only worthy of staying because they bootstrapped themselves up to be able to enslave the immigrants that came after.