alt Hacker News> My local bakery is a giant chain.
That's not what I would call a local bakery. Or are they making bread there?
> Any market inherently results in consolidation.
Only when you can undercut prices through scale. There are of course baking shops here as well, but they just don't have the quality of a real baker.
That is exactly my point. Local artisan bakers are being priced out by crappier quality baking shops due to their economy of scale. The market optimizes for the cheapest slop made by the biggest conglomerate, the opposite of what I want.