Who Do You Trust?

Re:Who Do You Trust? by guelo on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:34PM (#9746367)

Sounds like vc money has found another industry to come into and kill thousands of mom and pop businesses. As this process continues, massive investments to take over every industry by using efficiencies of scale, will there be any room left for the lower class entrepreneurs?

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by inthewoods on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:20PM (#9746647)

Sounds like they disrupted a terribly inefficient market to the end benefit of ordinary consumers who get a better product - market dynamics in action.

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by jgalt212 on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:10PM (#9746596)

except for the fact that one-to-one face-to-face customer service does not scale. So if a key value proposition of your mom and pop biz is such customer service, then I'd say you're fairly safe for the near/medium term.

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by paulbaumgart on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:11PM (#9746599)

Only in markets that are still meaningfully segmented by geography.

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by spectrum1234 on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:31PM (#9746714)

Why are mom and pop businesses better than those who buy or sell/cut hair? Shame on you for objectively deciding one group of people is better than another.

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by rosser on Friday June 19, 2015 @04:02PM (#9747284)

Really? "Shame on you"?

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Re:Who Do You Trust? by dang on Friday June 19, 2015 @07:27PM (#9748277)

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. This comment would be fine with just the first sentence.

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