Comments on: Why the recession is good for business

By: Arynn

Arynn — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:01:47 +0000

While I agree that the corporate world is, in short, a realm of evil, I find it necessary in a progressing world…much like death.
I have the unfortunate location of a small, narrow-minded town that’s got a perspective barely out of the Civil war. We have rebel flags in my town, just down the street from me, put up by a small business for display. For everyone passing through town to see.
What happens when we depend on small, locally owned businesses? We become limited to the ‘approved’ items of the beliefs of our immediate locals. I most certainly would not be finding zero gauge plugs or even most likely any safe piercing jewelry at all here.
I think that going back to the portrait-like portrayal of small-farm families and honest businesses would be crippling for a world that is still, in many places, struggling with intolerance. Specifically towards alternative clothing styles and modification.
Maybe not…but the ma and pa pawn shop down the street from me most definitely isn’t sellin’ no devil man-yoo-els, like Harry Potter.

By: Jordan Meeter

Jordan Meeter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:55:29 +0000

I have my fingers crossed, as well! I plan to start my own small farm. :)

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:31:43 +0000

I’m just concerned that the majority of the population will keep shopping at big box stores “to save a dollar”.
Like Scienkoptic said, they have the ability to keep cutting prices, which is one of the reasons why some of their large supplier companies will eventually file for bankruptcy. They will keep gathering more and more companies under their wing.

I guess they will have an eventual collapse, everything that gets too big for their own good does at some time. The question would be when…

Shop local, people!!

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:11:45 +0000

It might be fair to make a distinction between places like Krispy Kreme a Sbarro and places Like WallsMart. If you con’t care for the crap they are serving up at those food places, you can go elsewhere. Big Box places like WM, Target and Home Depot are far worse. They undercut and can run at narrower margins than the Mom&pop stores. Places like KK and Sbarro are likely to be franchise locations and their failure directly hurts small business owners that bought into them. Maybe poor product choice? I’ve never eaten at either.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:23:25 +0000

Cool… I have little to no sympathy for big businesses.

I don’t like the idea of my purchases subsidizing million dollar CEO salaries and shifting profits from the local community into distant shareholders hands. The resurgence of the local economy will have profoundly positive effects in the long run (although I appreciate it temporarily sucks for people who work retail in these jobs).

Hopefully we also see local manufacturing take off… I’d rather see that than seeing money flowing out of communities into foreign factories with a lower standard of life and environment, and into all the costs of shipping…

By: Badur Ramji

Badur Ramji — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:52:12 +0000

apparently one big box store just filed for bankruptcy

https://www.blogto.com/city/2008/10/big_box_bankruptcy_a_sign_of_things_to_come/

By: dresden

dresden — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:28:34 +0000

Hey Shannon, what’d you use for the eye covers? I might want rip that off this year, if you don’t mind.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:14:39 +0000

A lotta peeps doing a lot of ‘legal’ drugs.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:13:42 +0000

You need to throw Starbucks and their rotgut coffee in there too. Went to Seattle once and i swear there’s an intersection with a starbucks on each corner. What about Walgreens and CVS every 500 feet. I fail to understand the logic of that except: Better living through better Chemistry.