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- paraselene0
that's the model, and it's something that we've learned the hard way in the states starting quite some time ago.
it's the entire principle of the franchise. one shop/gas station/adult bookstore turns enough profit to support another shop/gas station/adult bookstore while it pushes out the competition in a new area because it doesn't even have to break even, living, as it does, off the profits of the first.
once the competition is eliminated, the franchise can hike prices again, until two shops/gas stations/adult bookstores turn enough profit to support two more and so forth, growing exponentially like a blight. it's actually a very savvy way to thwart the precepts of free enterprise capitalism.
be gald y'all are short of space here, because in the u.s. this has meant a devastation of the inner city and the dreaded sprawl.
- ********0
Happened in Scotland with the buses. Stagecoach, if they wanted to run them in your town, would just follow the existing buses with theirs and let everyone on for free. As soon as the existing company went bust, no more free from Stagecoach.
- soda0
always buy from local shops.
I've got a weekly order set up for me organic stuff. It's expensive but worth it. And I'm helping small producers.*soda grins to himself then realises he has become a Crouch End Ponce....
- paraselene0
*does the na-na-soda's-a-ponce dance
- ********0
*throws organic leek at soda.
- lowimpakt0
*soda grins to himself then realises he has become a Crouch End Ponce....
soda
(Feb 15 06, 04:18)
---------------------lol
well at least you can count yourself lucky that you're not a farmer, local shopkeeper or small food producer.
- chossy0
isn't organic milk the only think proven to be any good for you ?
- ********0
That gets on my tits. Tesco putting up large banners in their shops stating "British Farmers Number 1 Customer". No mention of the fact that being thier number one customer allows them to piss all over them, which they do.
Cheap tatties though.
- KuzIV0
all food is good for you, as it stops you from starving.
- ********0
isn't organic milk the only think proven to be any good for you ?
chossy
(Feb 15 06, 04:29)organic doesn't denote being good for you.
- lowimpakt0
all food is good for you, as it stops you from starving.
KuzIV
(Feb 15 06, 04:30)
-----it makes dinner time more fun too!!
- UndoUndo0
i saw a bbc news24 interview with an 'organic' farmer who can by all right use pesticides although not in as large does as other non-organic farmers. good eh
- soda0
i saw a bbc news24 interview with an 'organic' farmer who can by all right use pesticides although not in as large does as other non-organic farmers. good eh
UndoUndo
(Feb 15 06, 04:34)what?
rearrange those words so we can understand them?*chomps on organic leek
- KuzIV0
here you go peeps, an article on walmart style capitalism
- UndoUndo0
ha ha,
does = doses
enjoy yr leek
:)
- chossy0
ha ha oh my don't get me started on an agricultural debate I come from a land background and I am very aware of the rights and wrongs of farming and the merits of different food stuffs. I was literally born in a field he he.
- KuzIV0
*munches on sandwich composed of asda smart-price tuna in brine, mayonaisse and tomato ketchup on white bread.
mmmmmmmm
- lowimpakt0
is your family still in farming?
- chossy0
Yes trees. I lived the first ten years of my life on a farm my father was a forester and my mother worked on the farm as did we well we tried he he we were only small. Also most of my pals are from a land background aswell organic sheep farming and another is an arable farmer.
- lowimpakt0
good stuff. trees are a safer investement i suppose.