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  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    In summary, I think the statement is untestable because it’s so poorly confined. Basically it’s something that grumpy local business owners with poor value-propositions tend to say. One of those things that sounds like it ought to be true but doesn’t stand analysis.

    For example, there might be a “local” store which doesn’t need many employees but sells products manufatured elsewhere. It’s a local store but most of your money is going elsewhere.

    OTOH there might be a chain store that employs 100s of local people, and buys fresh produce from local farms. Not a local business owner but most of the money is benefiting your local community.

    Additionally, local people own just as many shares in large chains as anyone else.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      What an excellent point.

      Have to get to know the business owners in your own community and figure it out yourself perhaps!

      I suppose a study could figure out average impacts though, via random sampling? Not sure how my source had calculated it.

      Additionally, local people own just as many shares in large chains as anyone else.

      You mean our neighbors own stock of Wal-Mart so shopping there is beneficial that way?

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, I think that saying shopping at Wal-Mart is “beneficial” might be a bit of a stretch, I just mean to say that when someone says “shop at a locally owned store so your money stays local” they’re really saying “shop in my store so I get your money”. What most people don’t realise is that their pension plan (called super in Australia, 401k or something in US?) probably owns a bunch of shares in Wal-Mart, so you may as well shop there if you’re a part owner.