Retail reform and expansion may follow the same route.
Indeed, the logic of low consumer prices, better returns for commodity producers and huge skilled and semi-skilled employment is so strong that those attacking shops and banning businesses now are probably only delaying the inevitable. Of course, delays extract costs. But they also allow dissent, whether informed or motivated or merely fashionable, to find expression. We are not and never should be, China. There’s more drama in the retail story and a probable happy ending.
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