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Originally Posted by ficbot
I used to work in a copy shop and several of our customers were smaller retailers. Among them was an indie bookstore I had loved---until they started coming into the copy shop and turned out to be the most demanding, complaining, rude bunch of customers I ever served during my short tenure in the customer service industry  I'll take 'big retailer, lower price' over supporting the little guy 'just because' any day... |
Don't do it 'just because.' Do it to keep wealth within your local community where you and your compatriots have a better chance of making sure that its used wisely. Do it because it makes it more likely that everyone will treat people as people and not as a kind of check-out machine. Heck, with the increases in automation we are seeing in today's supermarkets, I wonder how many employees will be left to mind the store in ten years.
Luqman