[PRCo] Re: OT:___1936--1937___PCC

[Fred Schneider]

NOT ABOUT RAILWAYS -- OPEN RESPONSE TO DERRICK -- DELETE IF YOU WISH.

My hunch is that Wal*Mart has gotten away with it because, up until recently, it
was the little guy they hurt or wiped out and he had no chance of taking them on in
the courts.  Possibly also because it would be hard to prove that the other stores
went down the tube because of Wal*Mart and not because of their own bad decisions.
Last weekend I was shown two shopping malls in Hendersonville NC that had been
totally or largely wiped out by one Wal*Mart Superstore ... one had other large
name companies ... KMart, Penneys.  Seeing that surprises me that someone hasn't
tried to take on the Arkansas vampires yet.   Wal*Mart has let the word out that
they will fight anyone until they win ... they already have two stores in Lancaster
County and have been dragging another site through the courts for several years now
without immediate success.  They lost one battle only because the land was sold out
from under them.

Kodak was hurting other large companies like Ansco (General Analine and Film
Corporation) and Dupont and they had money for big guns.  Companies that GM hurt
were not particularly small because you cannot have a small motorbus factory
anymore than you can have a small steel mill ... Mack, White, ACF-Brill Motors ...
these were not small empires either.

Want to duscuss farther?

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > NCL was evil ... if you listen to the blabberings of Fred Schneider ...
> > because they got too good for their britches.  Other people didn't like being
> > put out of business by a top drawer competitor.  Kodak and Microsoft have had
> > similar problems.
> > Competition is the American way.  Penalizing a company for being too good is
> > also the American way.
>
> Aside from being hated, Wal-Mart isn't particularly penalized. Although
> out of scope for NCL, the implications of monopoly are real. Why buy word
> processing package X when it's either not Microsoft Word compatible, or
> may not continue to be when new Word releases happen, when 90+% of the
> world can deal with World.
>
> > were not going to compete.  Here in Lancaster, CTC was loosing money by 1923,
>
> loosing it on whom? ;-)

Take out one o ... losing.  Sorry about that.  Spelling checker doesn't check
brains.