[Avodah] super stores
Zev Sero via Avodah
avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Mon Mar 20 12:49:41 PDT 2017
On 20/03/17 15:12, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
>
> is there any chance that there will be a psak not to shop at large discount
> [frum] stores whose side effect is putting economic duress upon smaller
> shopping outlets? in one sense it benefits the tzibbur to have
> cheaper prices, but disadvantages
> store owners who might otherwise be richer...
For whom does an economy exist? For the general interest, which means
for the consumers, for the special interest of a few producers? The
entire purpose of production and marketing is to benefit the consumer,
so how can it possibly make sense to deliberately make the consumer pay
more so as to support producers? If the producers aren't up to
supplying the consumer's best interests, then who needs them, and why
should they remain in business?
Some rabbonim could do with reading _The Wealth of Nations_
Note that "hasogas gevul" in the gemara meant coming into someone else's
community to set up shop, when one had no reason to go there and could
easily have chosen instead one of the many communities where there was
no existing Jewish business to compete with. It does not apply when the
new person also lives there, or if he has another reason why he chose
this community rather than some other one.
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Zev Sero May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
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