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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Good point.
The dept store/pharmacy/supermarket book depts *are* Kiosk businesses; but instead of free-standing in malls, they are based inside the multipurpose business. That sell commodities rather than specialty goods.
Hmm, that needs some thinking on.
"Bestsellers" are supposed to be traffic draws but if they're available everywhere doesn't each title become a commodity unto itself? If you're going to buy the newest Patterson book, it doesn't matter much *where* you get it; you get it the first place you find it at a good-enough price. That is commodity-like...
Something to chew on for later.
As to the predator thing: markets aren't neatly bounded like fish tanks. They overlap and overflow, they grow and shrink... They change.
When a "predator" outgrows its environment or its environment shrinks, it can and should look for new hunting grounds. Sometimes it even means abandoning its original niche instead of expanding it.
Survival comes first, second, and last.
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I threw that predator thing in thinking about big book stores swallowing little book stores until finally there was only one. Sounds like that movie with the line "there can only be one."
Anyway, sure the big fish has grown and there are not really any good sized fishes to eat but it can subsist on plankton, algae, kelp and such as well as the little tiny winy fish (minnows like individual customers) that it has to expend a great deal of energy chasing.
Then all of a sudden those damn fishing birds start diving into the water and grabbing the larger little minnows, and those bears and people with hooks and fish spears start grabbing the little minnows and they aren't afraid of taking a big predator fish either. It can be tough out there in the wild, and it takes a while for a big predator fish to evolve wings, or legs to walk on the ground.
How is that for an ecosystem.
(Next we will bring in army ants, and alligators!)