[Jyhad] Best Buy shutting down the Future Shop chain

[Oedipussy Rex]

On a now-defunct forum, a Swede answered another member's question regarding Sweden's socialist health-care system with a rant how the system, which was set up in the early 1900s between the crown and the unions as a hedge against the communists, was sold off to private interests in the '80s by politicians because "private industry is more efficient than government," and the people went along with it, after all, that was the platform the polits were running on. As everyone should have realized would happen, the private interests started gutting benefits because the needs of the shareholders exceed the needs of the public. When the people who voted in the those who sold out their interests realized what was going on, they voted said politicians out, but sadly the bell couldn't be un-rung. Much did get re-nationalized, but much couldn't. So today, Sweden's much-vaunted social health-care system is a pale shadow of what it once was. That's what I had in mind in making my Sweden comment.

Also, it appears that Best Buy bought Future back in 2001, are only now getting around to consolidating, and the stores that won't be re-opened as rebranded Best Buys are those right next to existing Best Buys.