Carrefour don’t buy Danish
I’m being told that Carrefour is a very big food store chain in France. They obviously choose to make money now in exchange for freedom. Even when comparing to Google’s recent behavior in China it is hard to understand Carrefour’s decision; unlike Google’s situation the French company is willing to give up on their own freedom. But in the other hand – they are French …
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I doubt that any of this is somehow "protectionism" in disguise. Carrefour has little to gain from favoring French products, unless it is itself a manufacturer of a large proportion of the French food products it sells.
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For that matter, Carrefour, as a whole, isn't boycotting Denmark, as a whole. It's just not selling Danish products in some of its stores outside the EU. It would be impressive if the EU had a law for that - a law that says "a company may not refuse to display a country's goods on its shelves solely because of local hatred for that country."
Then again, we're talking about EU regulations here. So who knows but that some enterprising young bureaucrat didn't stick such a law in among the 10,000 pages or so that some commission enacted into law in any given month of the last few years.
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The fact is that I don't think that any regulation should prevent a store from boycotting anyone that they desire to. However since I beleive that Carrefour's actions are moraly wrong (objectivist, remmember? :) ) I hope that the Eoropean public will punish them in the only effective way by boycotting them.
It is that simple
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