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In response to "7-Eleven to open 100 outlets in NYC?! How dare they! -- (link)" by Mop (190 lbs)

I wish we'd pass a law similar to San Francisco which bans or limits franchises like this.

Posted by Krusty (aka krustylu) Jan 30 '13, 09:48

They don't belong here.

Responses:

It's horrible that a company would dare to offer lower priced items to consumers. RAGE! -- nm - oblique [220] Jan 30, 09:51 20
- It's excellent that the profits go to far away places and not to a local owner to support the local economy. SMILEYFACES! -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 09:52 10
  - It's also good that locals are spending less on stuff at convenience stores, leaving them with more money to spend in their community. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 09:55 9
    - And then they use that money saved to buy crap on Amazon. Local stores are toast. Eventually everything will form into one big glob of mucous. -- nm - Loyola Jan 30, 09:58 1
      - So? Business is driven by supply and demand. If Mom & Pop, Inc can't offer anything to differentiate themselves from Big Biz, Corp, then they have - TWuG Jan 30, 10:01
    - How long will those prices stay low once all the competition is gone? -- nm - Krusty Jan 30, 09:58 1
      - Dude...a Big Gulp ain't gonna change it's price because Uncle Louie's Five and Dime went out of business. -- nm - Jim Jan 30, 10:01
    - and of course everyone works at Walmart for free -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:56
    - give me a break. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:56 3
      - Is something I said demonstrably wrong or doers it just conflict with your "corporations must always act evilly" opinion? -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 10:00 2
        
        I'm not opposed to corporations at all. But I am opposed to their illegal predatory pricing. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 10:02 1
        
        Is that what 7-11 is doing? -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 10:05
- they can undercut local businesses unfairly, and that's not cool. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:51 8
  - how is charging less unfair? if they can buy in bulk and pass the savings along all the better -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:52 7
    - it's illegal, not that it isn't done. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:53 6
      - wait, how is it illegal? wouldn't that close every Costco down in North America? -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:54 4
        
        it's not? My bad, I thought it was. can a lawyer help? -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:55 3
        
        in theory it is, in practice the government rarely does shit about it -- (link) - charlie Jan 30, 09:56 1
        
        thanks, that's what I though. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:57
        
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      - wait, how is it illegal? -- nm - amanda Jan 30, 09:54
Why? If they attract customers then they must be filling a need that the currentr businesses aren't meeting. Why protect businesses that aren't - TWuG Jan 30, 09:50 20
- Because New York is above such things as a 7-11. Duh. -- nm - Jim Jan 30, 09:54 1
  - I just bought a controlling interest in all 100, DEAL WITH IT BITCHES! -- nm - ARod Jan 30, 09:55
- They meet the needs but they can't compete with chains that can offer better prices. - Krusty Jan 30, 09:52 11
  - Then they're not meeting people's price needs then. If people valued those things more than price then they wouldn't go to 7/11. -- nm - Ender Jan 30, 09:53 6
    - but the low prices are fake. They offer low prices long enough to dirve the locals out of business. - loosilu Jan 30, 09:54 5
      - I have shopped at Walmart for a decade or so and have never seen them raise their prices this way -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:55 3
        
        neither have I. Not to mention, I've yet to see 2 Wal-marts with different prices on the same thing. -- nm - Jim Jan 30, 09:58
        
        it has been proven. -- nm - loosilu Jan 30, 09:56
        
        cause their is Always someone else (Costco, Target, Sobeys, etc etc etc) who would be all over them price wise -- nm - Beaker Jan 30, 09:56
      - Yup. -- nm - Krusty Jan 30, 09:55
  - So... better prices are now a bad thing? -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 09:52 3
    - it depends on how you lower prices -- nm - charlie Jan 30, 09:54
    - That's not what I'm saying and you know it. -- nm - Krusty Jan 30, 09:53 1
      - I think you are saying that something nefarious is happening but have offered no proof of it occurring. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 09:58
- Won't somebody think of the hipsters?!?! -- nm - Ender Jan 30, 09:51 1
  - ST apparently thinks about them quite a lot. -- nm - ty97 Jan 30, 09:53
- because they can use predatory pricing to gain an anti-competitive advantage? -- nm - charlie Jan 30, 09:51 3
  - So make predatory pricing illegal. - TWuG Jan 30, 09:55 2
    - it already is -- nm - charlie Jan 30, 09:57 1
      - Problem solved. -- nm - TWuG Jan 30, 10:03

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