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Re:It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream by netcan on Thursday July 23, 2015 @08:10AM (#9935175)
I never understand this kind of debate.

Why would anyone (other than other desert sellers) care how many ice cream shops there are, except to complain that there isn't one? I love the Dutch, but they are about as foreign to me as the Japanese, even more when it comes to anything food related.

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Re:It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream by learnstats2 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @10:34AM (#9935940)
A healthy economy should have a range of services that people might want to use in that area.

We have the same argument locally about betting shops and cafés.

It is a known business strategy in these industries to open additional stores to dilute the success of competing stores. This creates an artificially high number of stores, wasting public space and limited resources: potentially reducing the economic health of a whole area.

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