Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors
by sokoloff on Sunday September 03, 2017 @09:51PM
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Agreed in large part, though it still incents high hurdles for new upstarts to compete with successful incumbents.
I wonder if we wouldn't see a shift in grocery store form with the substance remaining as today.
Rather than buying a bottle of Coke from Star Market, you might be buying a consigned bottle of Coke, with Star Market serving only as the marketplace (avoiding Star buying the bottle from Coke), and where Coke is paid directly by you as part of the transaction. Grocers operate on a terribly thin net margin as it is. They would have a lot of incentive to avoid additional transactions in the supply chain (and there's some societal benefit to keeping grocery prices low).
I'm not so much arguing against [though I do oppose a transaction tax] as I am brainstorming how the implementation of such a tax would create different behaviors in the market to compensate or avoid the tax.
I wonder if we wouldn't see a shift in grocery store form with the substance remaining as today.
Rather than buying a bottle of Coke from Star Market, you might be buying a consigned bottle of Coke, with Star Market serving only as the marketplace (avoiding Star buying the bottle from Coke), and where Coke is paid directly by you as part of the transaction. Grocers operate on a terribly thin net margin as it is. They would have a lot of incentive to avoid additional transactions in the supply chain (and there's some societal benefit to keeping grocery prices low).
I'm not so much arguing against [though I do oppose a transaction tax] as I am brainstorming how the implementation of such a tax would create different behaviors in the market to compensate or avoid the tax.