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Originally posted by Xell101
Seems to correspond to how our society works and the amoutn of people. When it's a town of 150 with only 80 that don't produce that own means of survival or a good amount of it, then you have customers. When it a town of 27, 000 and 24,000 need retail establishment to acquires living necessities and probably networks of pipes and wires, it's consumers, because it is how the self-perpetuating collectives of people operates. That's my take on it.
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This was kindof how I was thinking of it.
My town is inbetween those numbers you gave and I'm watching it actually go through that change of customer to consumer. My town is about 10,000. I've lived her since 1983 and it was a great deal smaller then. No chain grocery stores or dept stores. If you wanted to go shopping you had to go to a couple different stores for the things you needed. We now have 3 grocery stores that are chains and a Walmart, that arrived in about 1992. I can still go to the stores on Main street and be treated like a customer but when I go to the bigger grocery stores and Walmart its a little more like a consumer. Since I've been here so long I know enough people who work at the larger stores that it isn't as bad as some big towns with big stores (our walmart is small). I can see the change. Not all but a lot of it has to do with size. When you are just a number you become the consumer. When it's personal you are the customer.
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