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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Welcome to life in general though. There is no slowing the internet down and consumers almost default to doing all their shopping, banking, living you name it online. As a musician of 20 years I’ve seen the idioms of getting art out to the people erode away. Algorithms dominate any form of media that promotes music making it so the ‘small business’ bands have a sea of other ‘small business’ bands to contend with (bedroom musicians kill me anymore) while juggernauts that are built up by the industry like Drake (or even a band like Greta Van Fleet) rule the playing field. And that’s not something that’s gonna just disappear… it’s undoubtedly here to stay and with it we will continue to see erosion in many aspects of life which is frustrating.
I hate shopping from Amazon and generally online but I still do and I do so at an increasing rate which is evidence of small businesses being squeezed out of the marketshare all while the juggernauts like Amazon (Drake) continue to surge.
Is a 3 out of 5 star going to impact Amazon the same way it will impact Gary’s electronics?? No it’s not… it’s why small business now more than ever really needs to put all their marbles into customer experience and keeping the customer as happy as possible because at the end of the day if this hot tub place didn’t have Flames_gimp looking for a used hottub and he just went to CostCo (Drake) then what does this small business have? One less consumer swallowed up by the juggernauts.
It’s depressing to watch unfold slowly because small business and the arts community typically are what make cities unique and give them their own unique charm.
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Agreed. And that's why I'm totally confused when a Calgarian rates a fellow Calgarian's business three stars (general rating discussion here; not FG in particular) because the service was good, but not above and beyond enough. Okay, sorry I'm too busy making pizzas at my pizzeria to make you feel special enough. More of those three-star reviews and I'll be out of business and you can enjoy Boston Pizza, I guess.