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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Halx
Smart people resent dishonesty. Best Buy is an example of a corporation that represents greed (overcharging, bad service, biased advice). If this thread were about Wal Mart, then there would be similar resentment, mostly because of the cliche that when they open a store, all the family businesses in the area tend to go out of business. How is that contributing to the community?
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a simple model
all the employees including the mom and pop of the mom and pop stores don't employ as many people who make incomes and pay income tax. They in turn spend their incomes on consumables and pay sales tax and indirect taxes.
large stores generate and pay more taxes than the mom and pop stores.
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