My local convience store is called Tom's.. It has been around for many years. The current chinese owners never changed the name nor the owners before. Same sign, same products.. nothing unethical.
Kind of like when a big company buys a smaller company and keeps the brand name.
Re:Steal Million Dollar Homepage Pixels
by PhasmaFelis on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:20PM
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> Same sign, same products.. nothing unethical.
Exactly. If it's basically the same business under new management, there's nothing wrong with keeping the name. If it's a new business with no relationship to the old, trading on the name to grant false credibility and bring confused customers into their own shop, that's unethical.
And kinda stupid if you're trying to game the reputation of a business that went bust.
Re:Steal Million Dollar Homepage Pixels
by travisjungroth on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:27AM
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Buying a doctor’s practice feels a lot like this to me.
There's honestly not a great meatspace analogy to the situation, no matter how you look at it. But it's clearly not the same as just buying foreclosed real estate.