The Free Market Works
Some people think that chain outlets like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Starbucks, etc. kill competition and harm small business. However, no less a left leaning blog than CurbedLA has found that Starbucks actually brings more business to competing independent coffeehouses by expanding the category while the upstarts manage to offer alternatives to corporate coffee.There was a very similar experience in Glendale where competition from an innovative local store was one of the factors that lead to closing down a Home Depot.
Just as they once uprooted veteran retailers like Sears, K-Mart, Builders Emporium, etc. corporate behemoths like those mentioned above are potentially the dinosaurs of the near future when someone else figures out how to do it better.
Ergot - no need for the government to protect us from the likes of them.
And that, Jack Hoff, is the free market perspective.
Labels: home depot, jack hoff, k-mart, los angeles politics, sears, starbucks, wal-mart
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 1/10/2008 12:01:00 AM
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Again the fat man only gives part of the story. It is not a free-market when large corporations can lobby government for large tax breaks. A small retailer does not get the same type of concession a large corporation does. Read you own recent posts about the AEG corporation; you are such a meat-head. The concept of a truly free-market is just a theory which rarely exists.
Do you think if I want to sell my soda at 7-eleven or Ralphs that Coca-Cola is going to stand still and give up the shelf space they have bought in the major retailers? You obviously know nothing about how products are actually purchased and displayed in a retail store. Or how land lease agreements are negotiated.
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You are trying to compare a little ole Starbucks to behemoth Home Depot?
Starbucks sells coffee. Home Depot sells to contractors and in bulk. They also offer carpet installation, roofing, tiling, cabinet installation, tool rentals, the list goes on.
Restaurants tend to do better when
when there are other restaurants around them. The same is not true when Home Depot enters a town. I suggest you read "Big Box Swindle", and try again to justify your misguided position. See ya Sunday!
Baldie at 12:02,
Look in the mirror real estate flop. Save your own home before calling others "meathead."
Moron.
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Is that your attempt at intelligent discussion? You seem like the moron who gas no valid points to make.
Mayor Sam-
I had been under the impression (possibly mistaken?) that Alice star Joe B. was opposed only to the Home Depot in Sunland Tujunga as presently proposed?
Is this not the case?
I know Jim Alger is part of a union funded anti big box "grass" roots campaign. Is Joe as well?
That would be the Do-It Center scandal.
What's wrong with bulk? Mayor Sam has always been bulk.
See you at Kohl's!
9:09 AM
It's advisable to check your post for glaring errors first. And then you can call someone else a moron.
The 7-11 example was not a good one. that IS the free market... your shit goes on the shelves when you get big enough.
Lobbying on the other hand needs to end. That's absolutely not fair or free
Look who is talking, one side lobby is on war with other side lobby, let it be left or right both do the same. How do you think the government runs, on your taxes, bullshit, your taxes are not enough for governing officers to fill up their gas for travels.
These chains work for 24/7 and they charge the simple citizen for every single penny they spend to make big bucks. That is how it is and will be.
Neither the left or the right has the balls to mess up with the business houses, so lobby wont go, lobby will only restructure.
One government comes reduces the taxes and favors project to fill in the wallet of their friends, then another hopeful government friends get discontended and fight for those bucks. So the new government is here, taxes are doubled and back into action, money raised and is used for projects favored to satisfy new governmental friends.
End of the day, what?, the simple citizen is exploited no matter what. Being said that people know it and yet got out and get those old brats elected, get some youngsters out there, atleast the young will have a pleasing personality to look at.
At the end of the day let it be young or old, left or right or center, liberal or conservative the simple citizen is going to be exploited for sure. We know it, what are you fellas fighting about. Got get a life.
Mayor Sam, this blog has gotten so weird and off topic lately, it's difficult to find a cohesive string of arguments to relate to, but I do thank you for throwing down the gauntlet.
A good government (of the people, by the people, for the people, blah blah blah -- ) promotes healthy competition in a free market but also provides stop gap measures to preserve our freedom. We cannot just roll up a state or federal gov't in order to "roll the dice" on market forces dictating our future, nor can we simply abandon our courts and legal system in deference to a free market.
At one point in my life, I worked at the headquarters of a company that was under federal investigation for being a monopoly. The executives had no problem lying to the media (or telling me to lie to the media) while excessively raising fees on the consumer after they had taken out or bought out the competition in a given market.
The corporate world is filled with execs like these who have no moral compass and without some regulation, we would only have monopolies which lead to no free market whatsoever and a major compromise of the liberty we value.
Silence. That can't be a good thing.
The nut doesn't care about it's ass and it's shorts, dumbass. Could be the advantage to being a nut. If the cops come to take you away, it might feel like a relief.
Thanks for the response, 8:55.
Mayor Sam, 8:55 has requested that I ask you to "stop the idiots" on this blog and, well, frankly, I'm sure you'd agree that compiling a list that large would be a cumbersome task, but since, as they say, "the longest journey begins with but a single step," would you be so kind as to delete 8:55?
Thanks so much. Now I can go back to playing Warcraft.
speaking of free, did you see the latest Hunt episode?
Jack Hoff, faux liberal, plays Warcraft. Dungeons and Dragons was over his head.
jack hoff = walter moore with even less to do with his time.
Jack Hoff is a blow hole looser for real. Hate to say I told you so, but the guy plays Warcraft! In his smelly underwear eating Cheetos on a couch with broken springs, singing Kumbayya and hoping the terrorists will stop attacking us once they smell his feet.
Could be that Jack Hoff is one of the idiots protecting his right to pow wow with the other idiots, offer stock advice, tell people to short silver, sell Countrywide, and buy gold without a license and disclaimer. Seems 8:55's post hit a nerve. Woke him up from his Warcraft game.
Warcraft is a fav with the Nazi Lowriders in Huntington Beach. Disfunctional Lilly Honkies love it. As do all those people who take the renaissance fair too seriously. Look for Jack Hoff soon on a Wife Swap episode near you.
lol, guilty as charged!
Jack Hoff Plays Warcraft?
Jack Hoff plays Warcraft...Jack Hoff plays Warcraft...Let's think about this...Last time I met an intellectual who played Warcraft was...gotta think, mama,... well now I never...don't potheads and demented kids play Warcraft?
Got that right.
Jack Hoff the liberal just admitted to being a Nazi.
Kills me to say this, as I'm a liberal, but you're an idiot. Call Tom Hayden. Maybe he can help you get your spin on track.
Jack Ass.
Guilty as charged?
Jack Ass, you just admitted to being a Nazi.
Ain't nothing like the real thing is there, Jack Ass? That good Humbolt County Warcraft really sets you straight about who you are.
another one bites the dust
Can you please hold on to your comments until AFTER I level my hunter? Thanks!
Go suck an egg Jack Ass. You're far too stupid to let it slide. That part where you admit to being a Nazi Jack Hoff was icing on the cake. So blow it out your ass.
Jack Hoff admits to being a Nazi.
LMAOOL ;)
You get to stay anonymous till the end of time Jack Ass. Can't come out as a Nazi, can you? Now, if I were a Republican Strategist...oops jeez, maybe I am one. At least I know how to call one.
Market controls don't interest Jack Ass on the blog where he's sooooo concerned to have market controls? Hypocrite. Nazi moron phony liberal looser. Stay underground Jack Hoff. Eat bugs.
It's late and I'm tired of you Jack Ass but to answer the question you are afraid to ask, Jack Hoff, will I be posting your LOL Guilty to being a Nazi everytime you post?
You bet. Down through time.
Do you need a new identity?
I would get one fast if I were you, Jack Ass.
Are you cooked?
No, with the KKK posters here you're in the pink. Otherwise, yep, Jack Hoff. You blew this out of your ass and it took less than five paragraphs.
LOL.
Ah give him a break. Maybe Jack Hoff is Bickhart defending his terrorist bed bud. She's everywhere on this blog, ya know?
Perhaps, by my having fun, I was being part of the problem instead of part of the solution. My apologies.
Please check out this website at your earliest convenience.
http://www.bipolarhelpcenter.com/
Is it a website for manic-depressive liberals suffering from Nazi syndrome?
Jack Hoff has fun calling himself "guilty" of being a Nazi. His excuse in the morning? The person who picked him off has bipolar disease. Good one Jack Ass.
This blog is stupider and stupider thread after thread. Not that I've kept up with who Jack Hoff is but he just admitted to playing Warcraft not to being a Nazi. What I wonder is, why is someone so obsessed with making him out to be a Nazi and discrediting him, is it because he's claimed to be a liberal? You're all nutjobs from the looks of this.
It must be the conservative nazis that are mad at him.
How are you certain what Jack Hoff admits? He didn't specify. He said, "guilty." Unless you are Jack Hoff, posting as someone who can read your mind, the stupidy is all yours 1:15 PM.
The post might not prove Jack Hoff is a Nazi. Though it shows he's a pompous dumbass.
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