Re: no personal checks, please

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Date forwarded: 	Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:55:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:           	"Philip Cook" <PCOOK@novell.uidaho.edu>
Organization:   	University of Idaho
To:             	vision2020@moscow.com
Date sent:      	Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:52:14 -0800
Subject:        	Re: no personal checks, please
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> >From:           	Peggy Adams <adams@pcei.org>
> 
> >Let''s spend our money there and at other locally owned 
> >businesses. I was happy to see that Taco Bell has been replaced 
> >by Moscow Burrito in the UI SUB.  
> 
> Is it locally owned or just another front for Marriot?
> 
> > Applebees' has no investment in the community.  Any money you spend
> > there goes out of the area and out of the pockets of locally owned
> > businesses.
> 
> I am no fan of chain restaurants either and much prefer locally 
> owned establishments for a variety of reasons.  But to state that 
> "any money" spent there leaves the area overstates the case.  
> Applebees has employees who spend their wages in the area, and 
> I imagine the investment portfolios, pension plans, and IRAs of 
> many local investors include Applebee's International stock.  This 
> nonemployment income potentially is spent in the community.  
> 
> I do find the location of the new restaurant to be troublesome.  
> Exactly which neighborhood is Applebee's "Neighborhood Grill and 
> Bar" in? I suppose we have more such location decisions ahead of 
> us now that the corridor is open for business.  Perhaps Applebee's 
> with it's decor of local scenes and memorabilia will become a 
> museum to remind us of what it was like.  
> 
> Philip Cook
> 

why limit this to just one resturant? Wal-Mart has hurt local 
bussiness's, Hasting will, Home Depot will. what small bussiness can 
compete with the Bulk buying power, those places can SELLl 
materials for less than local stores can BUY them wholesale. 

no thanks, I'll stick to suporting my local small bussiness, bussiness 
where I know the owner, and don't have to deal with "coperate 
policies" set by some bean counter back east who doesn't even 
know where we are, let alone who, and who's only consideration is 
"the bottom line"

Stan Evans