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

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

Posted by TWuG Jan 30 '13, 09:50

meeting the needs of consumers?

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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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