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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Edgar" data-source="post: 598336" data-attributes="member: 7230">Has anyone seen that episode of the big chain store taking over the propane gas business in "King of the Hill" on Fox? It is a cartoon show about a family living in a small town in Texas and all the stupid things that happen to them. A lot of the characters are pretty moronic and yet complex. I never thought I'd really enjoy it at all, but it is well-written and pretty funny at times.Anyhow, the father of the family, Hank Hill, is a manager at a propane gas business called Strickland Propane. He is proud of offering good service to his customers and working for a small business. Then, a big chain store called Megamart opens up selling everything from groceries to furniture to even propane gas! Their prices are so low that Strickland Propane goes out of business and Hank Hill is out of a job. He protests in front of Megamart, but it does no good. He later ends up working at the Propane section of Megamart for minimum wage under a teenage manager who knows nothing about propane. That's how many of these companies keep prices low: hiring poorly trained staff and paying them low wages.  Well, the manager ends up mishandling one of the propane tanks and it blows up the whole Megamart store and everyone is happy again. End of story.So, you can buy wherever you want. But remember that big chainstores can take away business from smaller stores that provide good service and a wider range of stock. They can also take away jobs and a decent standard of living for a lot of people. Sure, I buy stuff at big online stores and such and I'm not advocating not patronizing big discount businesses like this. But you should never forget your local gaming stores. This is because if they go out of business, don't expect to find everything they carried at the big chainstore.Just a thought. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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