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I'm glad you mention dentists/vets. I make it a point to verify local businesses aren't PE owned before I will use them. Of course one of the problems with PE

I'm glad you mention dentists/vets. I make it a point to verify local businesses aren't PE owned before I will use them. Of course one of the problems with PE is they hoover up _all_ the businesses in an area so you don't have a choice. There really needs to be regulation in this area preventing a single beneficial entity/controlling entity from buying/owning more than a few percent of a certain type of business in an area.

wellthisisgreat 2y ago
How do you find out who owns the business? Literally what kind of question would you ask on the phone?
chubot 2y ago
Hm what’s the best way to look up the owner of a business? I share this viewpoint on dentists and doctors
- cj 2y ago
  The fastest and simplest way is to ask them directly by calling or emailing. Searching for information about private legal entities, while possible, is inconvenient and usually incomplete/sparse.
  - data_maan 2y ago
    But why would they respond with that information? PE already has a pretty bad press, so they know that customers are calling only because PE is a red flag. They could just serve some meaningless half-truth and try to confuse you.
    - lazide 2y ago
      PE often doesn’t care because most folks don’t know what is going on. Private practitioners are usually proud of it.
dboreham 2y ago
Our vet graduated before I was born, and I'm really old. He still charges 1978 prices. Hoping he hangs on until our last batch of cats goes on to coyote heaven.
- groggo 2y ago
  :(
lasr_velocirptr 2y ago
I have thinking about doing this for a while. How does one go about verifying whether a business is PE owned or not?
- Spastche 2y ago
  you can kind of get an idea by looking up who owns it on your state's secretary of state website, if a personal name or an LLC with a local address is the owner it's probably local, but if it's an out of state address then you can probably google it and find out who's address that is associated with
semiquaver 2y ago
Just curious, how do you verify this?

wellthisisgreat 2y ago

How do you find out who owns the business? Literally what kind of question would you ask on the phone?

chubot 2y ago

Hm what’s the best way to look up the owner of a business? I share this viewpoint on dentists and doctors

cj 2y ago
The fastest and simplest way is to ask them directly by calling or emailing. Searching for information about private legal entities, while possible, is inconvenient and usually incomplete/sparse.
- data_maan 2y ago
  But why would they respond with that information? PE already has a pretty bad press, so they know that customers are calling only because PE is a red flag. They could just serve some meaningless half-truth and try to confuse you.
  - lazide 2y ago
    PE often doesn’t care because most folks don’t know what is going on. Private practitioners are usually proud of it.

dboreham 2y ago

Our vet graduated before I was born, and I'm really old. He still charges 1978 prices. Hoping he hangs on until our last batch of cats goes on to coyote heaven.

groggo 2y ago
:(

lasr_velocirptr 2y ago

I have thinking about doing this for a while. How does one go about verifying whether a business is PE owned or not?

Spastche 2y ago
you can kind of get an idea by looking up who owns it on your state's secretary of state website, if a personal name or an LLC with a local address is the owner it's probably local, but if it's an out of state address then you can probably google it and find out who's address that is associated with

semiquaver 2y ago

Just curious, how do you verify this?