Last week, Casey Jaywork spoke with several local business owners about the new $11 minimum wage (“How’s the Boss?,” April 7, 2015). In the article, he quoted local ice cream shop owner Molly Moon saying, “I’ve heard that it’s discouraging some chain companies, big-box companies, from expanding more inside Seattle city limits. I think that’s great, because that is leaving our city to local business owners.” Reader unrepetantcapitalist responded: “This shows the economic ignorance of the speaker. Local businesses can not match the skill and operating effectiveness of chains. So if the chains find the business conditions of any area undesirable, they are likely fatal for any ‘local’ businesses. Of course for an already established business it’s in their best interests to put up barriers to any possible competition.”