to compete anymore, in virtually any sector of the economy. Even if you compete on service, yadda yadda, customers by and large don't get it...They just want the lowest price, and if you can't compete on price, you can't compete. Now, I am not saying you can't compete, but that you almost can't. Certainly if you want any help from places like the SBA (I know, laughable, but humor me), while you probably won't be laughed out of their offices for wanting to compete in retail, when you work with them to draw up plans you will never get there by thinking you can just find a supplier to compete with the big-box stores. You can't. Period. That's why our local office supply store, which held on for 20 years longer than even I, an office afficiando, thought they should have, finally closed not long ago. The last one standing, of several that we had here in the 70's, just couldn't compete with Walmart, Office Depot, and Office Max. Office Depot couldn't even compete, so they are gone too. Now it's just the other two.