Post #4783 by Atomic Cocktail on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 12:07 PM

On 2002-07-31 11:06, theandrewssister wrote:
The bottom line is -- if people want it, it'll survive. If they don't, it won't.

It is a well known business practice that when large chains stores open in a new town they keep they're prices very low to drive out the smaller competition (and the chain store is supported by other stores across the nation.) When the competition is closed they can, and do then raise their prices to turn a profit. What I object to the is the generic nature of the large chains-not any "50's nostalgic feeling" I get from shopping in the smaller stores. The smaller stores just have what I want. I mean what kind of nostalgia can one have over Barge Cement?

I do not want to live in the 1950's-there is nothing from that time I long for-except maybe the constant anxiety of frying in a Russkie atomic attack. :wink:

INTO THE VOLCANO WITH 'EM!

[ Edited by: Atomic Cocktail on 2002-07-31 12:09 ]