http://www.koshertoday.com/kosher-independent-stores-
concerned-discounter-will-hinder-one-stop-shopping/
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.
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?
See here for a hasagat gvul psak!
http://forward.com/food/365904/kosher-pizza-war-erupts-in-hasidic-brooklyn-and-jewish-court-slices-the-pie/?utm_content=buffer61ebf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
I’d be interested in more halachic technical detail
KT
Joei Rich
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: [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...
... which in turn disadvantages the tzibbur. The tzibbur needs successful
stores that stay open. The proprietor needs to make not only parnasah, but
enough success to put up with the risks and effort of being a shop owner.
Just saying, one can't make a halachic argument for any particular economic
system based on what people need. Every system's proponents believe they're
backing the one that best serve's those needs.
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha
MB:
Just saying, one can't make a halachic argument for any particular economic
system based on what people need. Every system's proponents believe they're
backing the one that best serve's those needs.
---- guess it depends whether it's better for the kahal to have a
super-gvir vs many mini ones....
in regard the economic benefits of small vs super stores, see the tale of
matza machines , around page 70, wherein the poskim debated the economic
impact on hand matza bakers of these innovative machines, and whether
cheaper matzot trumped unemployed bakers...