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> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:26:15 -0700, sf > wrote:
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> >> >Not a problem, Walmart drives them out of existence. End of story.
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> >> WM is going to blockade the stores? Amazing they can get away with
> >> that. WM has never put a store out of business.
> >>
> >Sure they have. They set up shop in rural areas that are in need of
> >more jobs, get all sorts of tax concessions from the county to be
> >there (which the smaller stores don't get) and then undercut the other
> >businesses prices. Rural people, who apparently swim in the shallow
> >end of the gene pool, flock to Walmart and the smaller stores (who
> >don't have deep pockets) cease to exist.
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> Again, Wal Mart did not put them out of business, the lack of
> customers did. WM may have provided opportunity, but the consumer
> made the decision of where to go. In my town, the local stores
> downtown were pretty much gone when I moved here in 1981. The rest
> closed over the next five years or so. There was not a Wal Mart
> within 250 miles at that time, but there was a K Mart and a new mall
> about 20 miles away.
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> We had a great camera store in town back then too. Technology did
> them in. Same with the TV repair shop.
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> Consumers just don't want the small stores any more. Amazon and the
> like are doing very well. Even the big stores are hurting. Best Buy
> is getting by, but Circuit City, Crazy Eddie, and a bunch of others
> are gone.
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> >> >> It is not just WM, but add in Target, K Mart, many others.
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> >> >Yet, somehow - they don't have the same reputation as Walmart.
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> >> People like to pick on the biggest.
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> >They also don't employ the same business tactics as Walmart.
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> WM is the worst, but the other are not far behind.

TV repair is now just swapping out boards. Sure you can do by component
but when the cost when you factor labor is included, board swaps it is.