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I suspect you're getting downvoted because your suggestion suffers from the free-rider problem: everyone who chooses to continue shopping at Carrefour free ride
by msluyter 15y ago
I suspect you're getting downvoted because your suggestion suffers from the free-rider problem: everyone who chooses to continue shopping at Carrefour free rides off those who don't, yet they still obtain any supposed social benefits.
- oh_sigh 15y agoHow? How is someone who buys at Carrefour free riding off of those who don't? Carrefour has very efficient supply chains set up, and can therefore provide cheap goods. I don't pay more for a tomato from my neighborhood farm because Carrefour imports tomatoes from Algeria
- Zakharov 15y agoYou're suggesting these people are paying more because Carrefour was "onerous and damaging to their society". In other words, they're treating competition to Carrefour as a social good. Society is better off if enough people shop at competing stores, but no individual customer has an incentive to shop at competing stores.