The way it's going, sooner or later it will all be owned by one big mega-corp. Walmart? Amazon? AliBaba? Alphabet? These consolidations work well for corporate execs and shareholders. Some say for consumers (= cheap stuff). But it's all for the worse in the long run. "Consumers" are also the under-paid laborers in the mega-corps.
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Anybody try the PPG UltraLast paint yet? Looks really good. Watched a painter on YouTube give a good review but would like more feedback from fellow painters if possible. Thank you.
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I don't think it was a statement of fact. More of a sense. Looking for a statement from the corporate board or something?*citation needed
SW is on a mission to try to buy up a much of the painting industry as possible. Do I have a "citation" for that? Nope. I just keep seeing what they're doing/buying. The PPG / HD alliance is likely the corporate defense strategy for that. Do I have a citation for that? Nope. You get a sense for what's going on. And as a retailer, I'll take coco's "sense" for things over most any others.
And there's little indication that BM is looking to go to some exclusive ACE merger/alliance. That's a weird comparison because the business models are totally different. Comparing ACE / BM to the likes of Lowe's/SW and HD/PPG is like comparing apples and oranges. If we compare to food, ACE/BM are more like what IGA (INDEPENDENT grocers alliance) is/was. They facilitate supply for independently owned, small(ish) businesses. But Lowes/SW and HD/PPG are more like WalMart. They own/control/top-down-manage everything. Two different business planets.
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