nakdboardr

.......I need to eat

mikes2k

Today I learned Crayola no longer wants our business.

tokyo_james

Small retail businesses do not seem to be that important to the big manufacturers any more ... my aunt used to own a tobacconists in the UK, 20 years ago all of the sweet manufacturers, Mars, Rowntree, Cadbury would send reps round to take orders and deliver direct to the shop.

Then, after the big supermarkets his the area, none of the manufacturers was interested in the small shops and my aunt had to go to a wholesale place to buy everything.

That's just capitalist market forces at play for you ...

mikes2k

And soon we will have no choice. We will all be buying only homogenized goods at Walmart

tokyo_james

Correct. The developed world is becoming a shitty place ...

mikes2k

We really need to buy that island FAST!

tokyo_james

I seriously do think that big business and the drive to push up share prices is having a negative effect on our quality of life ... it just can't go on indefinitely and there will be some major fallout to deal with in the not too distant future I believe ...

mikes2k

It will be too late for us by then....

shareall

I would rather starve to death....

s2ko

Today I learned what you put off yesterday will bite you in the ass today.