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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 23704"><p>Some credibility to what the "guest" said about some of the major "Big Boxes." Makes me wonder if he/she doesn't work for one of them...lol.</p><p></p><p>Anyhoo...the thing that comes to mind is buying cheaper products and therefore selling for less... and probably with a very low profit margin that is made up by volume selling...we know that....</p><p></p><p>However, when these conglomorates crowd out the small businesses, even some of the local "major" businesses (and smaller chain stores), then this smells of monopoly and the early 20th century "Trusts". These Big boxes "whack" the smaller businesses just the same (unlike the Al Capone and others in the 1920s with their political and police payoffs and Mafia type killings). </p><p></p><p>Finally, I would think it would be very demoralizing and degrading for an "Ex Small Business Owner" to have to take a menial mindless job at one of the Big Boxes in order to survive financially. "Once a Business Owner"; now a cookie cutter cloned "Associate" (or worse yet...a "Greeter"). </p><p></p><p>Give me a break Big Boxes!! </p><p></p><p>P.S. I would pick up scrap metal along the roadside before I would work for one of those places.... (I did work for 3 or 4 of those places when I was a Freshman/Sophomore in colloge years ago. Think it lowered my I.Q. several points as a result...lol.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 23704"] Some credibility to what the "guest" said about some of the major "Big Boxes." Makes me wonder if he/she doesn't work for one of them...lol. Anyhoo...the thing that comes to mind is buying cheaper products and therefore selling for less... and probably with a very low profit margin that is made up by volume selling...we know that.... However, when these conglomorates crowd out the small businesses, even some of the local "major" businesses (and smaller chain stores), then this smells of monopoly and the early 20th century "Trusts". These Big boxes "whack" the smaller businesses just the same (unlike the Al Capone and others in the 1920s with their political and police payoffs and Mafia type killings). Finally, I would think it would be very demoralizing and degrading for an "Ex Small Business Owner" to have to take a menial mindless job at one of the Big Boxes in order to survive financially. "Once a Business Owner"; now a cookie cutter cloned "Associate" (or worse yet...a "Greeter"). Give me a break Big Boxes!! P.S. I would pick up scrap metal along the roadside before I would work for one of those places.... (I did work for 3 or 4 of those places when I was a Freshman/Sophomore in colloge years ago. Think it lowered my I.Q. several points as a result...lol.) [/QUOTE]
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