Then you are blissful - with two gigantic blind spots right off the bat. First, HD did not “eat up” any small business. The market responds to what SHOPPERS wanted - and if enough shoppers wanted all of those small hardware stores, they would STILL BE HERE PERIOD. By your thinking, all we would have are a bunch of small tiny merchants like downtown Dehli. Is that how you see America?
HD WAS a small busindss. Then they did well, and then they became a BIG bisiness. Many poor and middle class people became wealthy working for and investing in HD from the early days. Not just the three principles. Isn’t that the American dream? And is True Value also a problem? Lowes? How about Wal-Mart. Where the hell do you draw the line on what too big of a business success is? You are an economic liberal!!!! Which is to say, economic liberal. You clearly are obsessed with your bank account and your envy of Marcus.
Second, you don’t understand how the massive employment HD was involved in created many other businesses and jobs you don’t “see” the way you see a closed down hardware store. They are there. This is how an economy works. It is not static. Never has been, except in dirt poor countries who are much the same as they were hundreds of years ago. Economies CANNOT thrive and stand still at the same time. It’s not possible.
Third, Bernie Marcus has nothing to do with HD’s current stance on gay issues - but you are so blinded - I mean, I slam the left all the time for using the term “homophobic” - because an irrational fear is a phobia - and yet, I think it fits you. You are so phobic about one issue that you cannot appreciate what Marcus is saying about an entirely different issue.
Shoppers are stupid. They don’t know quality, if they did, they wouldn’t be buying the Chinese crap that has taken over the stores. Shoppers don’t know how to buy things that will last and they don’t take care of the stuff they buy.
I don’t follow shoppers. I have some things. a lot of antiques and a good house. I don’t throw stuff out and I repair and maintain what I have. HD does not have the expertise to assist me.
and They support gay marriage which I choose not to by not shopping there.