Ever notice how many companies who make the same products or close to the same products are always competing? They try to get new ideas to make their product better and then all of a sudden, another company alters the name of that idea just a bit and then claims it for their own. Take Coca Cola and Pepsi for example, one day, Coke comes out with cherry blast, and guess what, a week later, Pepsi comes out with cherry explosion.
Another great example of competing companies has got to be gas stations. One gas station changes their price, and it starts a huge hurricane of competition to be the one with the cheapest gas, until one of the companies doesn't want to go any lower, and we have a winner!
Yet another thing that bugs me is being in the grocery store and having all of these different “fancy” products. For example, I want a bag of bagels, so I go to the bread isle, and what I see is as follows: extra flaky bagels, whole wheat bagels, white bagels made with whole wheat, white bagels with sesame seeds, whole wheat bagels with sesame seeds, and finally, extra large bagels. Where in the isle am I supposed to find a plain bagel? I don't want anything fancy I just want a bagel!
But of all of company competition, the one thing that absolutely bugs me most of all is when companies say that they are the best. Notice how nowadays, every product or company that is seen on T.V. is the best there is. Whoever they are, they have the best prices and they have the best quality. Most companies want you to go out of your way to save money. If you want to get five dollars of you have to go home, fill out a long form for a mail in rebate, Put it in an envelope, address the envelope, buy a stamp at the store, go to the post office and mail it, and then wait a few weeks for them to send you a check for five dollars. In my opinion, they know we are not going to bother, and that's why they make mail in rebates, it allows them to put a lower price on their flyer or ad, and then make more money at the cash register. That is my opinion on company competition.
