Several murders in the business district of foggy Olde London circa 1880 get the attention of one Sherlock Holmes. Seems the dead prostitutes were killed by Jack the Ripper, and the horrific nature of the mutilations has frightened customers away from local businesses in the area.
Chalk graffiti points to a miscreant upset with the Jews and their uncouth manner of doing business. Naturally, the authorities don’t want any antisemitic rage surfacing, so they call in Holmes and his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson.
These are the days when merchants had no advertising in their modest stores. No gaudy storefronts, no bright lights, no “Closeout Sale” signs, or even gaudy ads in newsprint. Merchants prospered on the basis of quality of service to their customers.
Along come the Jews, who discombobulated the entire mercantile system. They displayed their merchandise in front of their stores in fancy glass windows. They used every possible guile to entice business away from the local merchants.
The Jews became fabulously wealthy overnight. They obliterated the hard working middle class before they knew what had happened to them.
Thus, there was at the time of this story much enmity between merchants and Jews. It’s not hard to imagine the merchants suspecting the murdered prostitutes, literally left to bleed out on their doorsteps, were part of another fiendish Jewish ploy to scare away what little business the merchants still had.
The head of Scotland Yard, Sir Charles, becomes personally involved. He does his utmost to scare our Sherlock Holmes off the case. Jews have powerful friends in very high places, then as now.
Think of all the millions of small businesses worldwide that have had to close their doors because of the “Big Box” stores. A Jew is a Jew, by any other name. Do people want good jobs or cheap merchandise? Advertising decides for them.
You’ve seen all the dead downtown areas of small towns in every corner of America. This is happening in every nation on the planet as the Big Box stores put tens of millions of people out of work and suck billions of profit out of already weakened communities using their docile armies of minimum wage workers.
As you watch this quite authentic film, notice the early scenes of the streets of London, the dirty bricks, the featureless storefronts, the fog, the grubby attire, the dark windows , and the narrow streets. Imagine, if you will, a bright colorful storefront opening up in this dark place, displaying their gaudy merchandise like whores on display in glass windows in Rotterdam.
Thus did the Jews overwhelm the tradition born merchant class, constrained by their code of conduct to have no advertising and compete only by virtue of the quality of their product and the friendliness of their service.
Big Box stores have the same strategy in the modern day. Now as then, they suck the vitality right out of small communities where they reside and send it to far away places. They care not one whit about bettering the communities that support them.
These giant multinational chains use advertising to sell their cheaply-made products. Their monopoly means they don’t need to provide a quality product. Their gain is our loss. Planned obsolescence is good for business. Let the buyer beware. Profit is key, not customer satisfaction.
I call it Murder by Degrees (of shoddy workmanship).
