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Old 12-18-2015, 11:57 AM   #520
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Originally Posted by linecook View Post
Tim will easily make up that 20% once Jim (his only competitor) closes his business and moves it to BC. Not good for the consumer as Tim now has a monopoly and can charge whatever he likes.
That just leaves the door open for immigrant Vadim, who works his wife, son, and two daughters at Vadim's Hardware, and pushes Tim into bankruptcy and his employees into the unemployment line.

Vadim not only has lower employee overhead (he pays his family in room and board) but buys cheap, crappy products from his cousin Khadim back in India, products that are cheaper than what you find at Home Hardware or Rona because they are poor quality, but good enough for the uninformed buyer. Thirty years from now, "Vadim's" is a brand on par with Walmart, and you cna no longer buy a decent bandsaw unless you go to a specialty import shop that sells outrageiously expensive German machines.

In short: Taking our jerbs! Our jeeeeeeeerrrrrrrbbbbbs!
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