People Power

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Originally Posted by chuck34

????? What does that mean?

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Like their rhetoric, not one damn thing.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

So you too have no objection to the endless march of the big chains on the high street, even if it brings about bland corporate uniformity everywhere one goes?

What a depressing world some people seem to want to live in.

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Who says it would be bland?

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Until then there's always democracy I suppose :p

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Or communism :p : Share everything, that should shut the have not's up...oh wait that don't work either :p :

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

Who says it would be bland?

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Of course it would be bland, because the big high street chains are necessarily dull corporate entities.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Of course it would be bland, because the big high street chains are necessarily dull corporate entities.

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You are generalising! It's just like people who say all blonds are stupid! I diasgree with your view!

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

You are generalising! It's just like people who say all blonds are stupid! I diasgree with your view!

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Give me an example, then, of how the increasing dominance of large chains on the high street promotes individuality and variety from one place to the next.

You should know Virgin Money to name one. I don't know about the sh!thole you live in but in our sh!thole we have "large chains" that are dynamic, fresh, forward thinking and anything but "bland". Instead of generalising, maybe look around and you will be amazed at what you will see :)

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

You should know Virgin Money to name one. I don't know about the sh!thole you live in but in our sh!thole we have "large chains" that are dynamic, fresh, forward thinking and anything but "bland". Instead of generalising, maybe look around and you will be amazed at what you will see :)

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The '****hole' in which I live is Berlin, and near me there is what I call a dynamic range of fresh, anything but bland shops — almost all independents rather than large chains. This is my idea of the description, not a high street made up of Starbucks, McDonalds and a load of big supermarkets. I would suggest you are too over-awed by the marketing hype, not least of Virgin.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

The '****hole' in which I live is Berlin, and near me there is what I call a dynamic range of fresh, anything but bland shops — almost all independents rather than large chains. This is my idea of the description, not a high street made up of Starbucks, McDonalds and a load of big supermarkets. I would suggest you are too over-awed by the marketing hype, not least of Virgin.

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:erm: You asked and I provided. All "colourful" entities market themselves. If you think I am awed by the marketing of the likes of Virgin, I may think you are awed by the marketing of Sylvia's Corner Cookie Shop cause they offer you a free cookie with every 12 you order. Each to his own BD, each to his own.

Individuality is found within.

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

:erm: You asked and I provided. All "colourful" entities market themselves. If you think I am awed by the marketing of the likes of Virgin, I may think you are awed by the marketing of Sylvia's Corner Cookie Shop cause they offer you a free cookie with every 12 you order. Each to his own BD, each to his own.

Individuality is found within.

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Quite so, but I find it difficult to conceive of how anyone could find individuality in something like a chain store that isn't individual. One may often find what one wants in them, but let's not bestow on them characteristics they don't have.