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Originally Posted by Gaurnim
Big chains usually don't take risks with the books they stock, they take the mainstream stuff and maybe a small number of fringe stuff if the relevant personnel is knowledgeable and interested enough.
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It isn't just choice that you give up in return for your very small discount on price. There's the social consequences too. Intensive/factory farming, child labour in India, higher unemployment as suppliers find their profit margins squeezed ever harder, environmental impacts of people having to drive out of town to get to the mega-stores, the massive volume of food that we throw away while people in third world countries are starving to death, these are all consequences of unregulated competition. And once you have everything whittled down to a handful of corporations you get price fixing anyway, so your small discount on price gets even smaller or disappears completely.