Thought

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.

Monopolies

Monopolies are not bad to consumers. If they were then they would not exist.

Monopolies form because a lot of people want goods and services from it. As soon as they misuse their power, competition will arise and consumers will take their money somewhere else.

If you look trough our recent history, companies that was once thought of as indestructible does not really matter today. A quick example I can think of now is Sears.

The problem with monopolies only arrive if the necessary regulation to promote competition is not in place.

So perhaps to all those people who protest against big companies should rather start to inform the general public a bit more about the problem that some of the big companies cause so that they would rather take their money to another place and thus forcing the large company to change their practices to stay relevant.

Eg. Groups of activists could inform regular shoppers about the benefits of buying goods that was produced locally rather than forcing the big companies to buy more domestically produced goods.
The company is merely providing what the consumers want, to change the whole shopping pattern it would need to happen at the consumer. Companies will adapt to provide what the consumer wants or else they will just disappear from the radar.

If consumers starts to buy more lets say organic goods or fair trade goods the companies will stock more of them, but it is unreasonable to force a company to stock goods that consumers will not buy. The additional costs of holding this product will just be passed on to the consumer by a rise in the prices of other goods and services provided by the company.

So perhaps if consumers are aware that the shop their buying does not treat they staff in a good manner they won't buy there and if they still keep on buying there then your believes is not shared by the majority of people so democratically you have been voted out.
Perhaps to the majority of people the extra costs of buying at Whole Foods is more than the extra benefits and the cost of guild caused by buying from a company which is less ethical. So it simply does not make sense to them to shop at the more ethical store.
This patter of behavior can be changed if activists can use their resources to raise the cost of guild of not buying ethical. Then more people would be willing to pay the premium for ethical goods and services.

So to most consumers Wal Mart is not bad, but I still prefer Whole Foods and Sears have not given the consumers what they want.

GO TO THE GYM

Something quirky I say to myself when I really don't want to get of my ass and go to the gym.

"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands (or wives), they just don't."

So start moving, I am afraid of unfit people, and don't you think I have reason to be.

Go endorphins!

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World's Best Salesmen are Indian

Bobby Naidoo from Durbs, applies for a job as a salesman in Vrede in the
Vrystaat in a hyper store.
The Manager says: "Do you have any sales experience?"
Bobby says: "S'true my Larnie, I was a salesman back in Grey street Durban
'n all."
Well, the boss liked the indian boytjie so he gave him the job.
"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did."

His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store
was locked up, the boss came down.

"How many sales did you make today?"
Bobby says: "Larnie, Just ONE sale 'n all."
The boss says: "Just one? No! No! No! You see here our sales people average
20 or 30 sales a day.
If you want to keep this job, you'd better be doing better than just one
sale. By the way, how much was the sale for?"
Bobby says: " R1,401,237.64"
Boss says: "Hell man..."R1,401,237.64? What the hell did you sell?"
Bobby stutters: "Sir Larnie Boss man, First I sell him the small fishhook.
Then I sell him medium fishhook.
Then I sell him large fishhook. Then I sell him new fishing rod and some
fishing gear 'n all.
Then I ask him where he's going fishing and he tunes down on the coast, so
I'm tuning him he'll be needing boats 'n all in the Indian Oceancause I'm
Indian and I'm knowing this, so we trapped down to the boating department
and I sell him twin engine Ocean going Craft. Then he said he didn't think
his Ford Bantam would pull it and I'm saying true 'a all, so I took him down
to our jammy automotive department and sell him that 4X4 Hilux double-cab
with a canopy 'n all my Larnie. I then get to ask him where he'll be staying
'n all, and since he han no possi to kip, I took him to camping department
and sell him one of those new igloo 6 sleeper camper tents. Then the guy
said, while we're at it, I should throw in about a R1000 worth of groceries
and two cases of beer and I'm scheming that's lekka 'n all and I gave him
discount.."

The boss said: "You're not serious? A guy came in here to buy a fishhook and
you sold him a boat, a 4X4 truck and a tent?"
Bobby tunes: "Nooit meneer, actually he came in to buy a box of Tampons for
his wife, and I'm tuning him: "Well, since your weekends stuffed 'n all, you
might just as well go fishing.

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