On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:24:43 -0600, Newps wrote:



Jose wrote:
A lumberyard? Have you ever been to a Wal Mart?


Sorry. I was thinking Home Depot. Other examples would apply though.


No they don't. Wal Mart does not put well run, efficient businesses out
of business.

I've heard that they overbuy from small suppliers, squeeze the margins
out of them with promises of large volumes,thereby limiting those
suppliers to a single customer, bankrupt them and take over the
assets. I don't have any first-hand verification, though. Fifty years
ago, the same stories were told about Sears Roebuck.

There is the potential to do that. The little guy wouldn't be able to
compete because he couldn't get the stock.

Don