Comments on: The Fate of a Corner Grocery in Austria https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-fate-of-a-corner-grocery-in-austria/2014/03/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:24:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Patrick Anderson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-fate-of-a-corner-grocery-in-austria/2014/03/09/comment-page-1#comment-652159 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:24:55 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=37468#comment-652159 But who will own the solution stores?

If the customers own the stores, they will prepay for the products bought in bulk and so receive those products at cost (at least for that minor level of vertical integration).

If many of these stores in the region buy their products together, and more aggressively, if they co-own farms and factories together, they will outcompete even MalWart in price or can use that difference to pay the workers better.

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