• zurohki@aussie.zone
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    That’s because small businesses know there’s half a dozen competitors within a 20 minute drive and care about keeping your business.

    When there’s two huge corporations that own the market between them, there’s more profit in not competing than they’d get by trying to win customers from each other.

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      23 hours ago

      Indeed, and also because those small shops were often owned by families or had less abstraction layers that remove all traces of humanity, like in the big corps

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      Didn’t work for me with Verizon. They do not care. They want you to quit. Comcast wants you to quit too. By switching between providers every year, the Sales Executives of competing companies get to show big numbers of new customers and get a bigger bonus.