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To: ed who wrote (21981)3/16/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Jack T. Pearson  Respond to of 97611
 
ed,
Retailers sell products they make make money on. They dump products they don't make money on. They are in business to make money, not to make their suppliers money.

The oil companies did shift profits upstream to the drilling part of the company and away from the refining and retail sales parts of the company. But that was because of the oil depletion allowance (tax break for drilling. Won't happen in PCs.