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For what it's worth, more affordable consumer goods are way more important to the everyday blue-collar folks who tend to not be the readership of this forum. If
by ThrustVectoring 8y ago
For what it's worth, more affordable consumer goods are way more important to the everyday blue-collar folks who tend to not be the readership of this forum. If you're making six figures, you care a lot less about a thirty cents a pound price difference of ground beef, and can afford to care about the concentration and centralization of the retail industry.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI'm not talking about the desirability of large corporations generally, but about those three particular examples. There are large companies like Costco (though obviously Costco is not targetting blue-collar people as much as say Walmart) that deliver cheaper goods via economies of scale but are organised rather differently from Walmart or Amazon.
- ThrustVectoring 8y agoHow do you propose interfering with Walmart's ability to compete aggressively on price without interfering with Costco's?
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoThat's pretty easy. Require Walmart to give decent employee benefits. Costco already does that, so that wouldn't hurt them.