On 26/10/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the local stores that have closed blame Wal-Mart. Mostly, their > owners had better things to do than run the store themselves, which I > think has more to do with them not making money than Wal-Mart did.
I agree with what you say in principle but I think that a lot has to be blamed on the preferential treatments that larger retailers receive from distributors. I recall some years ago when I ran my own business often big box retailers would have pallets of product (on consignment) when for the remainder of us there was no stock available and then without the advantage of delayed payments. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
