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But the issue is that there is now only 3 trees in town and you have little to know control over their maintenance or what goes on and off the branches. You st
by omeid2 3y ago
But the issue is that there is now only 3 trees in town and you have little to know control over their maintenance or what goes on and off the branches.
You still need shade, and so do others, and if you're doing any business that requires shade, you have no choice, but these 3 trees.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoI'm fairly certain many many businesses are not reliant on those '3 trees'. Even in a narrower scope, just talking about mass market businesses selling consumer products, an example would be the huge number of Walmart suppliers that do fine without sitting under those specific '3 trees'. Yes a large fraction do sit under the big 'Walmart tree' but they're not chained to it forever, the big 'Costco tree' is also available, along with many other smaller trees.
- jevoten 3y agoSo it's not a problem until it's impossible to run any business at all without relying on "those 3" (for any value of "those 3")?
- omeid2 3y agoIf your counter argument to consolidation is "Walmart", you're way off the mark to begin with, because they're a megacorp of their own. But even then, in a very interesting twist of absurdity that is the current state of affairs, your argument gets even more funny when you consider that Walmart spends some 4 billion dollars on ads per year, and are one of the largest customers of Google ads and Facebook Ads. So even Walmart depends on those 3 'trees'.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoDid you not finish reading the comment? I mentioned other alternatives...