Yeah but it does, though. Having a large corporation move in a poor neighborhood, and give people incentives to buy with them instead by offering lower prices UNTIL the competition is gone, leaving them with no alternative, is pretty much the same MO as Nestle giving powder milk for free to mother in Africa until their bodies would produce milk itself, leaving them with no alternative.
It’s scummy greedy behavior from corporations that choose to do this. You can’t fault poor people from they ng to buy slightly cheaper, it’s not like they have much options otherwise.
This isn’t a secret and it isn’t the 1800s where news of snake oil salesmen takes 5 weeks to reach the new world.
You know all of this going into the store. You know that by shopping there, the smaller chains and local stores will leave. You know you’ll then be paying more and have poorer quality. You choose to support. You can also choose to live the same way you were and not make your life worse later.
If the store wasn’t there the other stores would still exist. The store being there doesn’t prevent you from going to the other stores. You can make an excuse, but all you’re doing is screwing yourself.
What you’re saying would work if in the only one shopping there. I’m not. There are thousands of people shopping there and you can’t control all of them. If I’m the only one sticking to my principles, I’m still screwed.
Yeah but it does, though. Having a large corporation move in a poor neighborhood, and give people incentives to buy with them instead by offering lower prices UNTIL the competition is gone, leaving them with no alternative, is pretty much the same MO as Nestle giving powder milk for free to mother in Africa until their bodies would produce milk itself, leaving them with no alternative.
It’s scummy greedy behavior from corporations that choose to do this. You can’t fault poor people from they ng to buy slightly cheaper, it’s not like they have much options otherwise.
This isn’t a secret and it isn’t the 1800s where news of snake oil salesmen takes 5 weeks to reach the new world.
You know all of this going into the store. You know that by shopping there, the smaller chains and local stores will leave. You know you’ll then be paying more and have poorer quality. You choose to support. You can also choose to live the same way you were and not make your life worse later.
If the store wasn’t there the other stores would still exist. The store being there doesn’t prevent you from going to the other stores. You can make an excuse, but all you’re doing is screwing yourself.
What you’re saying would work if in the only one shopping there. I’m not. There are thousands of people shopping there and you can’t control all of them. If I’m the only one sticking to my principles, I’m still screwed.