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A few weeks back the Green Bay Press Gazette had an article about a small music store (The Exclusive Company) in Green Bay (and a few other locations throughout Wisconsin) that are still doing fairly well and have no plans of stopping now. Small music stores can survive, they just have to find their market and stick with it.

Mom and Pop stores are never going to beat Walmart and Bestbuy trying to sell the latest Britney Spears and Outkast CDs because there is no way they will be able to compete with the volume discounts those stores receive, and on the "loss leader" practice of business. However, if they can make a name for themselves in certain areas like The Exclusive Company has, then they will do just fine.

I have moved out of the hell that is Green Bay to the east coast, but I still do 80% of my music shopping there, because I know that there is a very good chance they will have what I want in stock, and I know I can ask Tom for reccomendations on new bands which I may not know and walk out of the store with a damn fine CD I have never heard of. Small record shops will live and die on the people who run them and what they stock, not by trying to beat the giants on price.

A few weeks back the Green Bay Press Gazette had an article about a small music store (The Exclusive Company) in Green Bay (and a few other locations throughout Wisconsin) that are still doing fairly well and have no plans of stopping now. Small music stores can survive, they just have to find their market and stick with it.

Mom and Pop stores are never going to beat Walmart and Bestbuy trying to sell the latest Britney Spears and Outkast CDs because there is no way they will be able to compete with the volume discounts those stores receive, and on the "loss leader" practice of business. However, if they can make a name for themselves in certain areas like The Exclusive Company has, then they will do just fine.

I have moved out of the hell that is Green Bay to the east coast, but I still do 80% of my music shopping there, because I know that there is a very good chance they will have what I want in stock, and I know I can ask Tom for reccomendations on new bands which I may not know and walk out of the store with a damn fine CD I have never heard of. Small record shops will live and die on the people who run them and what they stock, not by trying to beat the giants on price.

I'm afraid that you're too late. Pumped-storage hydropower stations have already been cited for fish kills. I can only find indirect references; link, another link.

That's technically correct, they buy legislators who make the laws. It is happening everywhere in the USA, and here in Wisconsin.

Corporations do not need to make a profit. They don't eat, they don't live in a house or raise children. They can dissolve at any time, they are a legal fiction.

Hmm, reminds me of a cartoon that was in the local paper :)