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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 18 12:45:18 2024
    The Fight Over Masks in Stores Is Back -- This Time With a Twist

    Store owners are trying to enforce mask bans to prevent theft, raising
    health and civil-rights concerns

    Masks are creating controversy for businesses again, but this time for
    a different reason.

    Early in the pandemic, retailers faced backlash for mandating face
    coverings. Now some store owners are demanding customers drop their
    masks.

    https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/the-fight-over-masks-in-stores-is-backthis-time-with-a-twist-bc5ed458

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jul 18 22:51:11 2024
    On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, JAB wrote:

    The Fight Over Masks in Stores Is Back -- This Time With a Twist

    Store owners are trying to enforce mask bans to prevent theft, raising
    health and civil-rights concerns

    Masks are creating controversy for businesses again, but this time for
    a different reason.

    Early in the pandemic, retailers faced backlash for mandating face
    coverings. Now some store owners are demanding customers drop their
    masks.

    https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/the-fight-over-masks-in-stores-is-backthis-time-with-a-twist-bc5ed458


    Jesus Christ. I'm not a masker, but sometimes I dream of a free market
    where business owners can set their own rules. Do you want to serve
    customers only with masks, fine do it, only without masks, by all means,
    both, why not? And let's see in a year or two which policy the market
    favours.

    My bet would be on "I don't care what you wear as long as you buy from my business".

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Thu Jul 18 19:36:32 2024
    On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:51:11 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    I'm not a masker, but sometimes I dream of a free market
    where business owners can set their own rules.

    Rules - one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or
    principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere

    I believe owners submit to insurance companies, to Fire/Electrical
    Codes, to local ordinances, etc.

    free market - an economic system in which prices are determined by
    unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.

    Market manipulation - In economics and finance, market manipulation is
    a type of market abuse where there is a deliberate attempt to
    interfere with the free and fair operation of the market; the most
    blatant of cases involve creating false or misleading appearances with
    respect to the price of, or market for, a product, security or
    commodity.

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  • From Danart@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 19 19:40:10 2024
    JAB wrote:
    The Fight Over Masks in Stores Is Back -- This Time With a Twist

    Store owners are trying to enforce mask bans to prevent theft,
    raising
    health and civil-rights concerns

    Masks are creating controversy for businesses again, but this time
    for
    a different reason.

    Early in the pandemic, retailers faced backlash for mandating face coverings. Now some store owners are demanding customers drop their
    masks.


    https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/the-fight-over-masks-in-stores-is-backthis-time-with-a-twist-bc5ed458

    The
    key word is trust.

    In my opinion and experience retailers and various establishment are
    racist cowards. Once in awhile you encounter the living definition of
    garbage. That being said they will take your business( money ) but
    could careless about your well being, often see it as a joke of sorts.
    They want attention.

    It is like that Video where the Motorist ( Bike guy ) had a helmet on,
    the coward ( fat pugly narf ) manager approached him but rather
    request he take off his helmet he called the police. The police came
    just about he was leaving ( after
    purchasing his stuff ), and created a dispute over his head-wear.

    cowardness caused a bigger problem.

    .........

    That is why I avoid shopping local as much as possible. I would rather
    order online ( ebay or something along those lines ) then go inside
    and have to "deal" with a racist coward, who wants
    attention. I go inside the store and have small talk
    to a $@$#@$ of rubbish who wants to start another George Floyd because
    he choose to take up a college major but end up working as a manager
    inside a store front.

    These racist cowards $@#$#@$ we have to eliminate them, one at a time.
    Fear can not be tolerated anymore. The sad part is that you have to
    play the victim at times. They could be a "minority", they
    could be "LGBT", they could even be the other gender and
    they are the worst person you have to deal with during the day.

    The sad part it is hard to spot these people, they could look like
    somebody you would expect not to care but then again they play the
    role of being anti-social, or anti-community, and only serve specific
    people.

    .........

    Yes there people who are trying to do there job but otherwise they
    live in fear.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=670022080#670022080

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