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There's been something related in the UK recently - Tesco not paying their suppliers. "...dating from middle age..." I've been noticing increasingly, while te

There's been something related in the UK recently - Tesco not paying their suppliers. "...dating from middle age..." I've been noticing increasingly, while technology is buzzing ahead, just how many mechanisms and interactions in society are unbelievably outdated. Is this what sociologists are supposed to be advancing? What are they doing?

Cthulhu_ 11y ago
That's different though - Tesco needs those suppliers, and the suppliers can boycott Tesco for not paying up, which would cause them to go down very quickly.
- mattmanser 11y ago
  No, Tesco can just buy it from someone else (or even import it at a loss) and good luck staying afloat when 80% of your business just went elsewhere.
rmellow 11y ago
They are too busy with the low hanging fruit of demanding political correctness.
SFjulie1 11y ago
I know this will look like SciFi dystopia. But it is real: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_de_commerce_%28France%29 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_de_commerce_%28France... Basically it is the most influential traders from your vicinity that decides how to settle your dispute. Being judge and stake holder, what a nice idea of the independence of the justice. Bankruptcy in our country is being fed to vultures stripping you down to the core and making money out of your misery. Business in France requires way more bigger balls than in USA. This joke is around untouched since 500 years. 2 times older than USA constitution. And socialist and liberal alike don't want to touch that. EDIT: France is traditionally built on big corporations. Consular justice favors the most influential companies, that are often "represented" at the national assembly or founding politics. Not all "national" companies are equal. My great great grandfather was was shamed publicly in 1900 for having one of his employee presenting himself and him giving 5francs to the "société pour l'amitié franco allemande" and considered a dirty "fritz" working for the schleues. Big corporations are dynasty built (like Gates fortune and other US big corporations) but the catholic french long lineage dynasties are a tad more equal than the others. Irony part of my family was protestant and being sacked from france in 1750. They tried to come back after some persecutions, and they almost all fled to the USA after 1900. Basically my family is consistently emigrating since 350 years. So I am too like my family before a refugee of some kind and we have a tradition to build back our fortune. But actual immigration laws are a pain in the ass in every countries for business men with nothing but "know how" and no capitals. Emigrants are more and more second rank citizens nowadays in every countries.

Cthulhu_ 11y ago

That's different though - Tesco needs those suppliers, and the suppliers can boycott Tesco for not paying up, which would cause them to go down very quickly.

mattmanser 11y ago
No, Tesco can just buy it from someone else (or even import it at a loss) and good luck staying afloat when 80% of your business just went elsewhere.

rmellow 11y ago

They are too busy with the low hanging fruit of demanding political correctness.

SFjulie1 11y ago

I know this will look like SciFi dystopia. But it is real: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_de_commerce_%28France%29 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_de_commerce_%28France... Basically it is the most influential traders from your vicinity that decides how to settle your dispute. Being judge and stake holder, what a nice idea of the independence of the justice. Bankruptcy in our country is being fed to vultures stripping you down to the core and making money out of your misery. Business in France requires way more bigger balls than in USA. This joke is around untouched since 500 years. 2 times older than USA constitution. And socialist and liberal alike don't want to touch that. EDIT: France is traditionally built on big corporations. Consular justice favors the most influential companies, that are often "represented" at the national assembly or founding politics. Not all "national" companies are equal. My great great grandfather was was shamed publicly in 1900 for having one of his employee presenting himself and him giving 5francs to the "société pour l'amitié franco allemande" and considered a dirty "fritz" working for the schleues. Big corporations are dynasty built (like Gates fortune and other US big corporations) but the catholic french long lineage dynasties are a tad more equal than the others. Irony part of my family was protestant and being sacked from france in 1750. They tried to come back after some persecutions, and they almost all fled to the USA after 1900. Basically my family is consistently emigrating since 350 years. So I am too like my family before a refugee of some kind and we have a tradition to build back our fortune. But actual immigration laws are a pain in the ass in every countries for business men with nothing but "know how" and no capitals. Emigrants are more and more second rank citizens nowadays in every countries.