A beautiful example of the free market working: Johnny's Pizza, a hole-in-the-wall family business in Brooklyn,
threw a fit when they learned a Papa John's would be opening next door. Political organizing didn't stop the chain from opening. So, Johnny's reacted: they added Internet ordering to compete better. And business is up! Thanks to free-market competition, everyone is better off: Johnny's was woken up from complacency to better serve its customers, the customers get advantages from convenience that they wouldn't get if Johnny's had succeeded in scaring away the competition, and there's even a Papa John's franchise to serve the local brain-damaged citizenry who mysteriously prefer a chain pizza.
So what is the reaction of the commenters? Bemoaning the presence of chains, and demanding additional regulation to keep them out. Unreal. I couldn't imagine eating from a Papa John's if there's a convenient NY pizza alternative (I gave Carina C. a what-for on Facebook when I saw that the U-Chi-Fed-Soc had purchased
Pizza Hut for an event), but I wouldn't think of legislating my personal preferences to require others to comply with my sense of taste.
