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Old 04-16-2009, 12:21 PM  
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Originally Posted by BFT3K View Post
I agree.

And as far as the scenario that was posed earlier, where lots of local retailers were discussing how to compete with Walmart - guess what? Walmart won, and the smaller guys died off, so I don't see how NOT wanting to get rid of tubes and free porn is senseless. It is the ONLY way for most players to stay alive.

Working harder to survive in this environment is a no-brainer. Trying to come up with new ideas to survive is also a no-brainer. But figuring out out to remove huge sources of FREE fucking porn, is additionally a no-brainer, as competing with, or emulating, a free business model is just rediculous.
Those other retailers could have survived, they just weren't willing to change.

The reason Wal-Mart won is because Wal-Mart gave the customers what they wanted. If the other retailers had adapted, they could have swallowed Wal-Mart whole.
Instead they just assumed that what Wal-Mart was doing was wrong (because it was different from what they were doing), and that they would eventually fail.
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