i love little music stores, particularly when run by personable people with colorful personalities... what i don't like is that they never have what i'm looking for.
i love the idea of supporting the local music store and helping out the little guy, but when you go in two different times over the course of six weeks and they still don't have your guitar strings because they just paid their taxes and don't have any capital to buy merchandise, it naturally forces me to go to the big store.
today i went to the little store and they didn't have the adapter i was looking for. they had a place for it on the rack... they just didn't have any in stock.
but its a cycle... when a big store comes into town, you run the risk of losing some business and therefore, some capital. then you can't or don't stock as much stuff, and when the faithful come in they might not find what they're looking for then turn around and go to the big store, and cause the cycle to continue.
for those expecting a spiritual/church related twist at this point... i don't have one. i could conjure one, and you can probably come up with some parallel if you like... i really just wanted to vent... it would actually be cool to hear your comments on how you could apply this... haha
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Alan Jackson from the great town of Newnan, Ga. wrote a song about this called "The Little Man" back in the 90's. it is preceived that big business is bad because it drives out the little man but then think about the number of jobs that are created b/c of the big man. but then b/c of the quality of people working for the big man is usually low, customer service sucks! so, in the end, i am for the little man. the price might be 10% higher and you might have to wait for a special order but at the end of the day you get personalized service from the little man and a relationship forms. that is WAY more important to me than price by the big man. people loving people through business. i should write a book!
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