{"id":1241996,"date":"2023-10-03T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=295853"},"modified":"2023-10-03T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T05:56:13","slug":"how-about-a-general-strike-against-dollar-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/03\/how-about-a-general-strike-against-dollar-general\/","title":{"rendered":"How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar General may well be, as a Bloomberg reporting team last week put it, the \u201cworst\u201d retail employer in the United States today. Why does that charge so matter? Dollar General has become \u201cAmerica\u2019s most ubiquitous retailer,\u201d with more outlets than Walmart and Wendy\u2019s combined. Dollar General\u2019s core mantra, as Bloomberg sums up: \u201cBuild as many stores as possible, pack them with tons of stuff while using as little warehouse space as possible, and spend as little as possible on everything else.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/how-about-a-general-strike-against-dollar-general\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/how-about-a-general-strike-against-dollar-general\/\">How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/03\/how-about-a-general-strike-against-dollar-general\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dollar General may well be, as a Bloomberg reporting team last week put it, the \u201cworst\u201d retail employer in the United States today. Why does that charge so matter? Dollar General has become \u201cAmerica\u2019s most ubiquitous retailer,\u201d with more outlets than W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1150,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242026,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241996\/revisions\/1242026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}