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To: Rande Is who wrote (13763)	10/20/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Shroom37	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, "Yes, I am dead serious that retail buyers will cut off suppliers that dis' them. . . .even if it is a supplier that they can make money from . . . I have seen it happen many many times. And when the manufacturer comes to its senses and reverses its decision, they find themselves with considerably less market share than they enjoyed prior to the blunder." You are correct. For a retailer it is all about shelf space and if you take your prod. off the shelf they will put something else in it's place that they can make money on. They are not going to sit there with an empty shelf waiting for you to grace them with your prod. And it is one really tough up hill battle to convince them that they need to carry your prod again. Also great picks on LQID, NXTL and ANTC. Thanks a bunch

To: Rande Is who wrote (13763)	10/20/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Jon Stept	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, re:is the consumer happier... Well, it depends how you define happiness. I hope you are not confusing your social nostalgia with economic nostalgia, if the two can be separated, which is a discussion all it's own. I would think it is easy to confuse the two. It is like asking are consumers any better off? And when you start asking those questions, you enter the world of consumerism and social studies. I mean, the consumer now, of the middle class, can have way more than they could have at a material level then they could have years ago. Right? Electricity, plumbing, lights, TV, radio, washing machine, medicine, any food they want just about. Would they not be happier with all of these conveniences... are they materially better off... don't you think so? If these conveniences did not come along with a reduction in the quality of life, I am not sure you would be saying this. I am not sure how the quality of life is relates to this countries consumer or social dynamics. Working longer hours, the disappearance of the housewife, latchkey kids, the diminishing presence of the nuclear family, a cynical, skeptical voting public... it is hard to disentangle that from the rise of the faceless corporation. But I don't think the two are close to synonymous. If you are having fit of nostalgia... I understand. If you didn't have that fit of nostalgia, it wouldn't be progress... they go hand in hand. But don't you think your this recent move by IBM is a nostalgia sink for you... an economic nostalgia trigger and you are responding to both from an economic, and social, standpoint? Just my opinion. Jon :)