"Kaz" <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote in message news:365fcc52.0306101656.2f9ad13e@posting.google.com...
> "Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:<9faFa.850$t6.495@news1.dion.ne.jp>...
> > Chulsoo Kim wrote:
> > 
> > > How the hell did you get a Costco card?  Doesn't that place have any
> > standards?
> > 
> > Or doesn't *he* have any standards? It sounds like Kaz has already abandoned
> > his Kinai roots and sold his soul to the white imperialists. Next he'll be
> > telling us that Tokyo isn't such a bad place after all...
> 
> Why do you assume that that kind of wholesale business is white
> imperialist's?
> I think the wholesale business field is a kind of a typical Jewish
> running business, rather than white imperialist's.
> Our Osakans, often called as Japanese version of Jewish, are great in
> the wholesale business. Actually Osaka doesn't have much productivity,
> but it has been standing in Japan's merchants city with the wholesale
> business ever since the Edo Era. The style of costco is a typical
> Kansai style though. The only difference is that it's a Sepponian
> version of Kansai style. That kind of style of wholesale actually has
> been existed here in Amagasaki for decades. There is another wholesale
> market running by Japanese just a few blocks away from costco. But
> it's much smaller than the Sepponian style big store. And Daiei had
> been running the same kind of discount store in downtown Amagasaki as
> "Topos" since decades ago.....but after costco opened, they closed.
> Daiei is in a huge financial difficulties now. I think Daiei should be
> absorbed by Walmart or something of Sepponian super power.

In addition, the reason why our tokyojaps(TM) dislike Osakans or
Kansaijin is strongly related to this kind of wholesale business.
Tokyojap's typical stereotype against Kansaijin is "Kechi",
cheapskate.  Osakan's business style has been "bulk buying and beating
the price down" ever since the Edo era. Osakan merchants always try to
beat the price down when they buy something, and buying anything
cheaper is a "wise" thing in Kansaijin's sense of value, but, being
"Kechi" and knocking the price down is a shame in tokyojap's sense of
value. Osaka and Tokyo are diametrically different. Producers always
want to sell their products in high prices but Osakan merchant always
try to beat its price down as low as it's possible. Daiei of typical
Osakan style business is well-known as such "Kechi" business, and many
manufacturers disliked to wholesale their products to Daiei type
retailers. Matsusita(Panasonic) is one of famous company that did not
like Daiei. Although Matsusita is a famous Osakan producer, they had
been refusing to wholesale their products to Daiei because Daiei buys
and sells Matsusita's products in way too lower price then Matsusita
expects.

But nowadays, very recently, even in Tokyo, I think many people there
like to beat the price down when they buy something, and they are
turning to Kansaijin-like.