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>Sure, small co-ops can have cost structures for smaller projects big companies often cannot match. That’s true of any kind of business. That doesn’t change my
by tw04 3y ago
>Sure, small co-ops can have cost structures for smaller projects big companies often cannot match. That’s true of any kind of business. That doesn’t change my point.
That's just ridiculous across the board. I guarantee, with 100% confidence, that a small local co-op does not have a cost structure below the big Telco's. My co-op pay SIGNIFICANLTY more for:
Routers
Switches
Conduit
Fiber
ONTs
Trenching Crews
Support
They pay less for:
Executives
???
It's laughable that you say it's true of any business that small businesses pay less than large. I can tell you what the discounts are for switches that I've sold in the past to a Fortune 500 vs. Joe Shmoe's Trucking - large corporations are frequently paying HALF of what a small business would for the same thing due to their volume.
- speff 3y agoI'm more-or-less convinced that people who complain about executive pay and its impact to end users don't know how to do basic math. Let's take AT&T as an example. From a rough search[1], they make let's say $70m total. Now let's see the number of subscribers they have using another rough search[2] - 217m. That's about 30 cents _every year_ from each sub for executive pay. What's likely is the co-op doesn't have the same level of support, uptime, or redundancy major telcos need to sustain. Every bit of which adds a hefty amount to the overall cost. [1] https://www1.salary.com/ATANDT-INC-Executive-Salaries.html https://www1.salary.com/ATANDT-INC-Executive-Salaries.html [2] https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nyse/t/statistics https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nyse/t/statistics
- rayiner 3y agoWal-Mart also gets large discounts because of its size. But that doesn’t mean it can open a small grocery store in a town that’s too small to support a normal Wal-Mart. That’s also true of Walgreens, or Best Buy, or lots of other large chains. Big companies have high organizational overhead that makes it hard for them to do small scale projects. And it’s not a matter of having fat margins. Wal-Mart’s margin is under 3%. Verizon’s wireline operating income margin is usually under 10%, often under 5%.
- tw04 3y agoWalmart literally has small grocery stores: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walmart+Neighborhood+Market/@35.5592991,-77.4047673,15z/data=!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x89aec2e13c64cab1:0xb6eb6176057f2575!2sWalmart+Neighborhood+Market!8m2!3d35.5591063!4d-77.4047067!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F11b6tz3pc9!3m5!1s0x89aec2e13c64cab1:0xb6eb6176057f2575!8m2!3d35.5591063!4d-77.4047067!16s%2Fg%2F11b6tz3pc9?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Walmart+Neighborhood+Marke...
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- speff 3y agoThat's not a small grocery store despite the name. And there's a supercenter less than a mile away from that, so that example is not even relevant to their point.
- rayiner 3y agoYeah, Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets are average sized standalone supermarkets, like Safeway. And that area is obviously quite populous—there’s a Sam’s Club (also Wal-Mart), and Aldi, a Food Lion, and a Fresh Market all within a quarter mile it looks like.