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In article <barmar-00829D.19380229052014@news.eternal-september.org>,
Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <290520141649349349%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>  Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> > In article <barmar-1920E2.10310829052014@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Have you been living under a rock for the past two decades?
> > > 
> > > The term is usually used for mega-retailers like Wal-Mart and Target. 
> > > Wikipedia says that it's also used for specialty superstores like Best 
> > > Buy.
> > 
> > I don't think we have any of these (well there is Asda, owned by
> > Wal-Mart, but that's just a supermarket).
> 
> How parochial are you? Do you only know about things that are in your 
> backyard? You don't watch or read news? Wal-Mart is the world's biggest 
> retailer, they have the largest workforce outside the government. 
> They're in the news frequently. Businesses like this are the reason many 
> mom-n-pop stores are struggling to compete, and even many once-big 
> retailers like Woolworth have gone out of business.
<snip>

Yep. It's difficult in many bigger towns and cities to find a store
that isn't part of a large chain, often owned by the same parent
company. Most of the shopping malls are all filled with the same old
big name stores.  :-(

In Australia / New Zealand there two main budget-sell-everything type
cahins - Kmart (which licenses the name from the US, but is an
unrealated company) and The Warehouse (often called Red Shed in New
Zealand, but they bought up an Australian company which has yellow
stores - I can't recall the name now).

Woolworths still exists in Australia as a supermarket chain, but the
New Zealand branches of Woolworths and Foodtown have all been rebranded
as Countdown after a buyout a few years ago ... although they still use
the peeled tomato "W" logo which Apple tried to stop Woolworths using.

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Apple is buying Beats after alll JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-05-28 16:53 -0400
  Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-28 21:58 +0100
    Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-29 09:34 +1200
      Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-05-28 14:57 -0700
        Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-29 14:49 +0100
          Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-05-29 10:31 -0400
            Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-29 16:49 +0100
              Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-05-29 19:38 -0400
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-30 13:31 +1200
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-30 09:52 +0100
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-05-30 10:23 -0400
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                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-30 22:41 +0100
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-31 06:52 +0000
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-05-31 02:15 -0400
                Re: Apple is buying Beats after alll Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-31 19:06 +1200
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