Of course the ideal is to be able to get to all those mom and pop outfits by foot, which just happens to describe the conditions most conducive to the economic viability of mom and pop outfits. -D
----- Original Message ---- From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Tuesday, 26 June, 2007 5:52:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Crosspost: ¡GREEN¢ WALMART: AN OXYMORON? Indeed, someone explained to me years ago that one of Home Depot's business strategies is to go into an urban area and open up several stores at strategic locations and then leverage their massive buying power and financial reserves to undercut the market. They only have to do this for a while until they destroy the local small businesses which works because they offer so much and they keep prices low and then when the competition is gone they close up several of the locations forcing people to drive further. On the other hand I wonder where the tradeoff point really is when you consider the fuel you burn driving around to several mom and pop outfits in a day to get all the stuff you could get in one stop at the super store. I haven't done the homework on this obviously but it is food for thought. Don't get me wrong, I am still in favour of local small business but the issue is definitely not clear cut and dried. Joe Dawie Coetzee posted: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/carfree_cities/message/10300 NEAL PEIRCE COLUMN For Release Sunday, June 24, 2007 © 2007 Washington Post Writers Group ‘GREEN’ WALMART: AN OXYMORON? By Neal Peirce WalMart has been harvesting kudos for its dramatic “green” promises. Even ... snip _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html
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