Re: B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)

"Rita Ä Berkowitz" <ritaberk2O04 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> David Nebenzahl wrote:
>
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>> o spending money in your own community, instead of enriching someone
>> else out of town
>
> TOTALLY IRRELAVANT!  I don't believe in passing out subsidies nor do I 
> feel
> I have an obligation to enrich a local merchant.  The merchant need be 
> very
> competitive if they want loyalty and a chance at survival.
>
Spending money in my local community does the following:
-- provides employment for other local people who would otherwise have to 
drive miles to work elsewhere.
-- provides a tax base to pay for essential services such as police,
water, 
sewer, etc
-- allows local merchants to sup****t organizations that enrich the local 
community (churches, civic groups, scouts, etc)
-- brings more business to my local business.

Follow the logical conclusion: if all the local merchants in your area
close 
down, what will your community be like? Deserted buildings? Homes for
vermin 
(both four foooted and two footed)? No money for municipal services?

Whenever possible, I will buy from the hardware store down the street
rather 
than Home Depot ten miles (and a county) away.