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What if the store I frequent happens to use one highway, but its competitor across the street uses another? I'd rather pay the "true" price of whatever goods I

• bena 8y ago
  If 'if' was a skiff, we'd all take a boat ride. Everything would have to use those separate streets. All of the customers couldn't use the "competing" store's highway. The two distribution centers have to use only the highways "owned" by the respective store. It gets to the point of the absurd. There must be some property shared by the two stores and the community surrounding them. They couldn't sell the same products because there would be no way to isolate all of that. At some point, there will be a convergence. If you want to pay the "true" price of your goods, you can't use anything that uses a common good for any part of the supply chain. Which is basically everything. And you aren't really subsidizing anything. You are getting a deep discount by virtue of leveraging economies of scale. This is a case where cooperation makes things better for all involved. It's not a zero-sum game. Sometimes trying to be cheap costs you more.