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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And yet proprietors of the likes of Joe Blow's Pizza and Aunt Ruth's Craft Barn seem to be mostly exempt from such aggressive moral oversight.
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Why do you think that?
1) Upset locals and the local shop go out of business.
2) In UK and EU the giant companies use offshoring and lobbying or claim innovation to avoid tax or local regulations. The local shops are MORE subject to local legal controls.
3) Local shops can be victimised by civil cases brought by international companies that can have special arrangements with a shopping mall owner.
4) Giant multinational companies have power to do deals with suppliers, force down supplier prices, extend payment terms beyond what the small local store has to pay, have their own branded product made by slave labour abroad. The local shop has hardly much more economic or trading power than a private person.
5) A Giant multinational can "phoenix" a national subsidiary (their own or another) and "buy" the stock cheap, but give only a few percent to outstanding creditors. They then make EXTRA profit on the stock and the supplier may meanwhile go bust.
6) Giant multinationals bring civil cases alleging counterfeit to prevent small local operators importing the real product direct. They win. But they import from wherever they want. Too big to be accused of "grey" imports via civil cases.
7) If a small shop is robbed they rely purely on the local police. The big multinational can use facial recognition and block suspects, never prosecuted, from all their stores. Apple proven to have done this. One person did take Apple to court and had never even been in the city where Apple alleged they were robbed.
It's not just moral issues. Many big multinationals actually break local advert rules and just get a "slapped wrist", or in reality break actual laws.