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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NJ26Dg01.html
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Creative destruction" was Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter's arresting phrase for the way capitalism works and has to work. If a trade becomes uneconomic, it makes no long-run sense to protect it.
South Korea's local shops, and traditional markets too, need to find a new business model or viable raison d'etre. Customers are voting with their feet, as they are entitled to, so as to gain choice, value and quality. "Small is beautiful" may be a fashionable nostrum,
but I can't see how it applies here. Do other Koreans owe mom and pop a living, no matter what? And however you answer that question, bashing a handy foreign scapegoat is no kind of answer.
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This isn't about solving any problems. It's about finding someone to blame. Costco, the convenient scapegoat for the end of the economic dinosaur, aka,
smaller Korean stores that even Koreans have chosen to bypass on their way to Lotte, E-Mart, and Homeplus? |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Does Costco have any cereals that aren't coated in sugar? All of the cereals at all of the stores in my town must have a gallon of sugar in each box. I'd like to go to Seoul tomorrow to buy some non-sugared cereal if Costco carries it. |
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IamBabo
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject: Costco |
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| They have Honey Nut Cheerios, a little sugary, about 9g sugar per serving, not great, but better than most.... |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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The raisin bran is fairly low sugar. I believe e-mart has some no sugar muesli and HomePlus used to carry Tesco no sugar shredded wheat.
It's hard to find cereals with no sugar. There's also Iherb.com |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NJ26Dg01.html
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Creative destruction" was Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter's arresting phrase for the way capitalism works and has to work. If a trade becomes uneconomic, it makes no long-run sense to protect it.
South Korea's local shops, and traditional markets too, need to find a new business model or viable raison d'etre. Customers are voting with their feet, as they are entitled to, so as to gain choice, value and quality. "Small is beautiful" may be a fashionable nostrum,
but I can't see how it applies here. Do other Koreans owe mom and pop a living, no matter what? And however you answer that question, bashing a handy foreign scapegoat is no kind of answer.
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This isn't about solving any problems. It's about finding someone to blame. Costco, the convenient scapegoat for the end of the economic dinosaur, aka,
smaller Korean stores that even Koreans have chosen to bypass on their way to Lotte, E-Mart, and Homeplus? |
I don't think that Koreans have simply bypassed the mom and pop stores. If they did, they wouldn't be around at all. I regularly go to a mom and pop store, and I see plenty in my neighborhood who go to it, but I often used to go shopping on Sundays and would go to Homeplus. I resented the fact that the major stores were closed, and I couldn't figure out on which Sundays they were open. Those local stores don't carry everything, so it's patently unacceptable. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| if you want to have an active and healthy economy then you must offer consumers the best products at the lowest prices. |
I disagree. Cheap commercial goods are not the heart of an active economy. |
I agree that cheap junk is not the heart of a healthy economy but disagree that a healthy economy is a worthwile metric for judging a human society. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Signs are up at Costco, Yangpyeong, that the store will be closed 11/11 and 11/25. Looks like the peabrains won this round. Meanwhile, I was in line yesterday, behind someone who was buying 600,000 won worth of Prego and cheese for their restaurant. (Someone somewhere is eating Prego and paying top money for it-lol). So I guess Costco is good enough to supply everyone in Seoul but not to stay open and serve Costco customers, eh? |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| Signs are up at Costco, Yangpyeong, that the store will be closed 11/11 and 11/25. Looks like the peabrains won this round. Meanwhile, I was in line yesterday, behind someone who was buying 600,000 won worth of Prego and cheese for their restaurant. (Someone somewhere is eating Prego and paying top money for it-lol). So I guess Costco is good enough to supply everyone in Seoul but not to stay open and serve Costco customers, eh? |
Half of the English teachers are too hung over to go shopping on Sunday anyways. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Another legal blow against those laws.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/11/116_124290.html
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Big retailers again win suits against Sunday closure Conglomerate-owned retailers won again in their legal battle against a government measure that has forced hundreds of their chain stores across the country to close once every other Sunday.
South Korea's municipal authorities introduced ordinances, including the Sunday closing rule on large discount chains since April, to carry out a new law aimed at restricting large retailers' business hours to protect small stores and vendors at traditional marketplaces.
Big retailers such as Lotte Shopping, E-Mart Everyday and Homeplus responded with lawsuits and, in June, the Seoul Administrative Court ruled that ordinances imposed by Seoul's Gangdong and Songpa district offices run counter to the upper-level law, thus allowing the giant retailers to stay open all week.
On Thursday, the same court ruled in favor of the retailers in a lawsuit filed against Seoul's Mapo, Gwanak and Gangseo districts.
"The ordinances themselves are illegal as they strip the power endowed to heads of autonomous districts, as stipulated by the law," the judge said, adding that the large retailers had not been informed of the restriction in advance.
The second ruling of its kind puts a brake on the nationwide move to restrict operating hours of major retailers, known as "super supermarkets."
Also on Thursday, a district court in Changwon, about 400 kilometers southeast of Seoul, ruled in favor of large retailers in a similar lawsuit against five heads of South Gyeongsang Province's autonomous districts. (Yonhap)
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