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Posted by HeyBub on March 9, 2007, 4:50 pm
Stephen Blackpool wrote:
> March 8, 2007
> Is Home Depot shafting shoppers?
>
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/HomeDepotShaftingShoppers.aspx?GT1=9215
>
[...]
Is your name really "Stephen Blackpool?" Or did you read the novel and said:
"This is my life?"
"Blackpool provides a stark contrast to these earlier characters. One of the
Hands in Bounderby's factory, Stephen lives a life of drudgery and
poverty...
"Stephen is an important character ... because he finds himself in the midst
of a labor dispute that illustrates the strained relations between rich and
poor. Stephen is the only Hand who refuses to join a workers' union: he
believes that striking is not the best way to improve relations between
factory owners and employees, and he also wants to earn an honest living. As
a result, he is cast out of the workers' group. However, he also refuses to
spy on his fellow workers for Bounderby, who consequently sends him
away...."
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Posted by Stephen Blackpool on March 10, 2007, 9:25 pm
Well, as I recall, and it's been a few years now, I couldn't have my
girl Rachael and then I falls into a hole in the ground but now I work
at the Home Depot.
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Posted by George on March 10, 2007, 7:16 am
Stephen Blackpool wrote:
> March 8, 2007
> Is Home Depot shafting shoppers?
>
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/HomeDepotShaftingShoppers.aspx?GT1=9215
>
> By cutting back on employees, the home-improvement retailer is putting
> the screws to the people it needs most: its customers.
>
I am surprised that anyone is surprised. Big box stores are interested
in wiping out all of the small stores. To do that they had to make
themselves look like good guys at first. Once they decimate the small
stores they can cut way back on staff and raise prices.
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Posted by HeyBub on March 10, 2007, 8:45 am
George wrote:
> I am surprised that anyone is surprised. Big box stores are interested
> in wiping out all of the small stores. To do that they had to make
> themselves look like good guys at first. Once they decimate the small
> stores they can cut way back on staff and raise prices.
They could, but they don't. If you can point to one single monopoly that HAS
raised prices in a captive market, I'd be surprised (except for professional
sports and government-sanction monopolies like utilities).
In fact, the biggest monopoly ever (Standard Oil) - the poster boy for all
that's evil about large companies - managed to lower the price of Kerosene
from $3.00/gallon to five cents in less than three years! Of course this put
the whale-oil suppliers out of business...
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Posted by user on March 10, 2007, 11:30 pm
HeyBub wrote:
>
> They could, but they don't. If you can point to one single monopoly that HAS
> raised prices in a captive market, I'd be surprised (except for professional
> sports and government-sanction monopolies like utilities).
>
Microsoft, and with Vista
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