[thelist] flash detection

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Mon May 7 16:59:48 CDT 2001


deke wrote on 7/5/01 10:57 pm

>Nobody ever noticed that until Sam Walton. He decided to serve
>the people in small towns first, because they were the ones with
>money. He waited until most small towns had WalMarts before
>he started sticking them in big cities.

Also there's less competition there.

If you can drive the one local shop out of business by cross
subsidising from the rest of your empire, then you've won.

Cheers
Martin


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