Microsoft Dominance

[housepig]

except it costs the little guy hardly anything to set up, wheras it costs walmart tens or hundreds of thousands.

define "hardly anything".....

- lease on a store
- inventory
- paid employees
- the other 10,000 ancillary costs of doing business (accounting, payroll, bad check fees, credit-card processing fees, etc. etc. etc. etc.)

sure, if you start some little gig in your garage, you can rock out - but that's not who Wal-Mart is competing with, or driving out of buisness. It's small and mid-sized businesses that find themselves suddenly competing with a gargantua that can afford to sell the same stuff as "loss leaders"...

[alenhard]

It's the ultimate catch-22. If you shop the little guy you usually have to pay higher prices, but you get to preserve your community. If you shop WalMart (or Home Depot, for that matter) you are feeding the monster, but you do save a buck or two.

But capitalism is the way we've chosen and I much prefer it over anything else!

[flaninacupboard]

from what i understand your supermarkets are a little dfferent to ours, more like mega-markets - ours mainly sell food with a few other odds and ends thrown in. really im just on about the food thing, my mother used to run a fruit and veg shop -employed no staff but herself, didn't take cheques and didn't take credit cards. plus her inventory was fruit and veg, not nuggets of gold
That was very cheap to set up.

[tgpo]

But capitalism is the way we've chosen and I much prefer it over anything else!

I prefer Free Market

[Baldrick]

I prefer no politics in my forums.

[pacmania_2001]

I prefer no politics in my forums.

Sharp yet witty.

[Capmaster]

I prefer no politics in my forums.

Sharp yet witty.

Baldrick may be many things, but a long-winded blow-hard isn't one of them. The man is thrifty with words