The local retailers can't compete with the prices, it's just the way it is
I'm anti-battery hen farming in principle, but I have a family to feed...so it's 7 quid for one chicken, or 3 for a tenner. Sorry local butcher, but I'm off to Tesco. This is the way of the world and it's only going to continue that way.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:13, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

it's not a good way for the world to go, in my view
it's not like i preach about only buying local, or only buying organic, because i don't and would be fucking hypocritical if i did. but at the same time, ending up with everything being bought at the same massive supermarket is pretty fucking depressing
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:18, Reply)

I disagree
I know what you're saying...it's a shame for someone who's worked their whole lives building a business, only to be undercut by a giant supermarket...but this is just what happens. We don't buy our milk from a farm, because it's more convenient to get it from a shop. We don't go to a tailor, because there are loads of shops that sell clothes off the peg. We don't buy stamps, because we have sms and email.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:24, Reply)

... and then people whine because their clothes are being made by children in a sweatshop
or their burgers are full of horse
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:29, Reply)

Nope
Because if you complain about the sweatshops, they end up getting closed down...then loads of people who are GENUINELY on the poverty line LITERALLY starve to death.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:32, Reply)

lots of people are stupid, though
wah wah poor children, i had no idea, despite the fact that i only paid £5 for this shirt AND skirt
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:34, Reply)

It's what happens when you only have a few massive retailers who can force the suppliers to accept less money for their goods
than it costs to make them, and therefore have to rely on either government subsidies, or they go bust.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 1 Aug 2013, 14:53, Reply)