What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

[Molpet]

I would agree with that.

Back in the 1990's, I was in Los Angeles for some training. I met some guys that were retail business bankruptcy liquidators. They told me that WalMart would go into an area, mark down their products just enough to kill all the local competition, and then jack up prices higher than before. WalMart was the reason why so many small towns lost all their retail stores, leaving death and destruction behind, and then when nobody had any jobs or money to spend anymore, they would close that Walmart store and just leave the town dead.

When a company gets big enough to sustain short term loss on items, they can wipe out the other local small businesses and then recoup their losses with higher prices when the community has nowhere else to go.

Yes and this is one of the reasons I avoid wallymart.

 

[saysfaa]

Me too. I didn't notice the leaving the town afterwards part but sure did notice the take a loss (or sometime, take a razor thin profit) until the little guys were gone part.

Not just Walmart, either. Or just Amazon.

I also think Amazon is trying to do it Fed Ex and UPS now.