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Originally Posted by Mivo
Where does it lead, though? Instead of a variety of small stores in the neighborhood, there will only be a handful of large online stores. Major supermarkets will only be found in larger towns, and more and more jobs will be outsourced to India, China, etc.
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Businesses in jeopardy of closing down need to find another model to stay afloat. You can't prop up buggy whip makers forever.
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We are almost there. My village, when I moved here twenty years ago, had a bakery and a grocery store. Both closed down years ago already because they couldn't compete with the malls in the nearby town. How could they? They can't match the prices and they can't offer the same selection. The post office also closed, since it wasn't "economical". Now the village has no stores anymore at all, and no one will open one because it would be financial suicide.
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I've seen where a Walmart will move in and a nearby grocery store (from a chain) will close down. Why? Low pricing of course. But then, that store overcharged to begin with and is now paying the price for doing so.
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Protection of small business isn't different from government aided health care, welfare payments, unemployment money, etc, and I feel that these are core responsibilities of a government. But maybe people who don't cut it, like small businesses, should just die in the streets. It might lead to tax reductions and save money, too.
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This is starting to get political. Suffice it to say that I don't believe in propping up failing business models. I despise subsidies. Businesses that compete in their current model need to find another one or perish.