On 7/7/2014 1:13 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Harbor Freight has no chance of driving the local hardware store out
of business, whereas Walmart has done that routinely and on a wide
scale.

Exactly how did WalMart drive them out of business? Did they put up
barricades that prevented people from going to them? Road closure?
Did WalMart harass their customers? Set up picket lines?

To my knowledge, WalMart has not put anyone out of business. What did
put them under is the lack of customers. It seems that their loyal
customers like the idea of going to a big store that carried a lot of
stuff and mostly soled it cheaper.

Much as some people complain about the bix box stores, they flock to
them in droves. They do it for the same reason you are telling us
Costco is a good place to go. Costco is replacing a hundred or more
little corner grocery stores.

And the we have on-line shopping. . .