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Although malls still attract its share of customers, the commercial survival of downtown
Chicoutimi is not threatened, far from it (1). Here is the 'good news" reported in the
newspaper The Daily on November 8. This article follows the "warning" Emily Gauthier,
owner of the shop ... Marie-Jos?e and president of the Economic Development Corporation
and cultural Arvida. She worries about the impact of online shopping in the local shops.
She says " Is that's the sad fate of independents? Does our city centers are becoming
empty desert? Many lament the situation, but how many actually prefer buying local?". ----
Emily Gauthier (2) deplores the closure of Planet Rock Shop, which sells, among other
things, flags and vests bands made in China . Is that local? Or Roch Delisle, owner of
haberdashery Laflamme, posing proudly in front of a sign Made in Italy, where you can find
the "big" brands local as Hugo Boss .... Vive buying local!
Roch Laflamme Delisle haberdashery ...
But the real question is: buy local ... but for whom? For what purposes? This is not
because we live in the same area (same area) that we have the same interests. Buy to
fatten employers and non thank you local bourgeoisie. Before you blame the people who do
not buy local, or rather do not buy from their local distributor, can we ask for a moment?
Can you really blame people for buying products cheaper online? We do not believe. In a
society where everything goes up except wages and families are drowning in debt (3), want
to save a few dollars by buying on the internet is more than understandable.
The local is not independent of overall and remains only a link in the great capitalist
system. This local bourgeoisie is only the latest products distributor, which often come
from elsewhere, from the long line. Some middle-class have several businesses, such as the
owner of Market downtown (Small-Medium Business), which also owns the Provigo in
Chicoutimi-Nord, which is part of the great chain Loblaw. In the end, the more products
you buy do not come from local and money only serves to fatten the pockets of regional
petty bourgeoisie. One way or another, the small regional bourgeoisie remains thank you to
the economic transformation and poverty. Whether through financing or spheres of
production, circulation and distribution, the small local merchant is fully embedded in a
system where a crisis after another. We can look for ways to develop the eternal solute to
a dysfunctional system, or they may seek to abolish it.
Rethinking the mode of production and distribution ... another economy Advocate:
This output of small-trader are spotlights on secondary issues. If small businesses
downtown eventually die, buying online is not the case. The problem stems from the
economic system. The concentration of capital in the hands of a few monopolies supported
by political leaders affects more local trade. The invisible hand of Adam Smith remains a
myth ... The small local merchant can not compete with the Walmarts of this world. More
than ever, we must break with the capitalist system in place by opting for the creation of
production cooperatives and self-managed distribution and socialization of the past to
ensure that they compete. Such a change will not be the product of Corporations
entrepreneurs. This involves the takeover of firms (workers' control) by and for
Artists-workers and self development of all production tools. We need to take hands bosses
control the economy!
(1)
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-quotidien/actualites/201411/07/01-4816944-pas-de-quoi-salarmer.php
(2) Emilie Gauthier reassures us, she mentions in the article that his business is going
very well! (3) http://cacq.ca/l-endettement-une-situation
There he published Yesterday by Collectif Emma Goldman
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