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Originally Posted by _Richard_
so it does happen.
big box stores can operate at a loss for much longer than small local business. on that basis alone, you're trying to compare apples and oranges, while contradicting yourself.
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1. The big box stores don't operate at a loss.
2. It happens, but the customers vote for which store they prefer by shopping there. The store doesn't "put other stores out of business", the customers do.
Before supermarkets, it would take half of the day to do your shopping. You had to go to a butcher shop, and wait in line. Then you had to go to a grocer, and tell the clerk what you wanted from behind the counter, and wait for him to fill your order for dry goods. Then you had to go to several vegtable markets to get your fresh veg, and if it wasn't in season locally, then you couldn't get it. Then you had to go to the baker, etc, etc, etc....
When supermarkets came along in the 1930s, people screamed that they were putting the other stores out of business. In N.J, they even passed a law that said that supermarkets, which bought in bulk, were not allowed to make their prices lower than the grocers and butchers. (The people screamed that they didn't want to be forced to pay more, and the law was shortly repealed).
Would you rather that the supermarket had also never come along, and we were forced to go to 6 or 7 places for our daily food shopping?
I bet that there are a lot of poor and working class families out there that might not be too happy if you came along and told them that they were no longer allowed to save money by shopping at big box stores, and instead they had to go back to spending more at the others, as well as having to spend all the time and gas going to several of them to get all of their goods.
The fact is that if you wish to charge less for your products, then no one has the right to tell you otherwise, and if you want to do business with someone that charges you less for products, then how is that someone elses business either?
I really don't understand the statists need to control other peoples actions. Let people interact voluntarily and peacefully. The only way a transaction occurs is when both parties perceive a gain in value.
For example let's say that your work generates $200 of value for you in one day, and you decide you want a tablet. If you buy an ipad for that $200, it's because you find the ipad worth more to you than the effort involved in making the $200. If Apple decides to sell it to you, it's because the $200 is worth more to them than the effort to make the ipad. BOTH PARTIES BENEFIT.
Can you explain why statist feel the need to control others so much? Is it that you like to be controlled also?
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