http://www.fastcompany.com/member_recent_content/76487 Member recent activity block for member profile page en http://www.fastcompany.com/node/895586 <p>Seriously? You think you've exploded any myths in this article? It seems you’ve just created your own new set of bloody ones. You’ve got the whole buy local thing backwards in far too many ways. By the way, it doesn't mean only "locals" are allowed in your store.</p> <p>Continuing your upside-down analysis, it's actually the large corporations who cut out the middlemen. They have their own direct-purchase supply chains, in-house legal/marketing/advertising, their own distribution channels, and typically high-volume, high-discount purchasing of imported goods.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/node/895586">read more</a></p> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:47:56 -0400 Arthur Brock 895586 at http://www.fastcompany.com