Why are chain stores taking over the world?

Question

Every where I turn in Chicago, is another Starbucks or Bed Bath & Beyond. Another Potbellys or Borders? What is your opinion on this matter of mass commericialism?

Answer 1

It's part of the evolution of society and survival of the common person. Large chain stores can buy in higher volumes and guarantee manufacturers a set quantity of products they'll buy. In doing this they are able to pass savings onto consumers, who are always trying to find ways to make their dollars stretch a little farther. Without these large change stores and everyone relying and corner, family owned stores we'd be living in a society where only the elite could afford to have homes, televisions, radios and cars everyone else would be struggling for the bare necessities.

That's pretty much the way it was a few generations ago before the common people got tired of struggling and starving while "families" like the Vanderbilts, Rockfellers, Carnegies and Gettys owned and profited greatly off their labor and gave very little back to them. Nor did they feel they should have to.

Find a "corner store" and try buying everything you need from there. Watch how quickly your paycheck vanishes and you have about half as much to show for it as your peers who buy at the the chain stores.

I feel sorry for the mom and pop stores, but if they could sell it for the same cost no one would go elsewhere.

Answer 2

To make more money, they need more stores. I personally use a few of these stores and usually they end up being better than the local book store or coffeeshop, or at least cooler. Who hasn't used these stores? Heard they're opening up a walmart in europe

Answer 3

Global gentrification.
To make every state look the same all over the world.

Answer 4

Its true. I heard a theory that one day everything will be owned by on person

Answer 5

makes sense... more efficient.... we need to focus on global warming remedies or we will perish.