Frustrated Mess
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G. Pie wrote:

FM, so you're saying that my decision not to spend any money ever at Chapters has no impact upon them?  How could that be?  I agree that I'm not changing the world (and I agree that for a company the size of Chapters one person's boycott has minimal impact) but my support of independent bookstores is still worth doing.

I'm not saying that at all. I applaud your personal decision and encourage you to be a principled consumer to the extent that within our culture you must be a consumer before all else. What I'm saying is that the impact is not such as to curb the operating model of these highly profitable retailers. Wal-Mart, for example, once did a market profile where they identified what they called "conscientcious objectors"--people who just wouldn't shop at Wal-Mart. They represented a significant market, maybe, but not the very profitable market Wal-Mart could maintain at mucher lower costs without changing any business practices.


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