Quote Originally Posted by Splash_4 View Post
As long as the consumer is looking for the cheapest price regardless of quality, we will continue down this long slide.
There is certainly a lot of truth to that, but it's not the whole truth. I think it's more a factor of getting a "known" level of quality. For instance, take McDonalds. I doubt if very many people would claim it's high quality, but every time you go in you know what the quality will be, no matter where you are. You can't say that about a local place. With a local place, it might be the best you ever had, or it could be really bad.