If a business is to succeed it needs customers if it has little or no customers it cannot survive alot of these airsoft shops are running sites too so if they dont get paid enough to keep it running you cant play there.
Ultimately that shop abroad doesnt provide you with the sites and services here they just sell you guns at an undermining price.
On the subject of niche versis basic services. No. Basic manufacturing and labouring is the legs to the captialsim pyramid without them noone can stand.
And as I've said - they'll get my business if they're cheaper/better value, or a better or unique product/service. UK companies do very few of these and many that rely solely on convenience are struggling to compete with imports or larger, more efficient companies (Amazon vs. basically every department store is a great example of this). There's nothing wrong with this (on the contrary, these services do provide a better quality of living - even if ever so slight - for millions of people, and that's why they spend there in the first place), but there are limitations for British business.
Innovation isn't just making your product unique/objectively better (Rolls Royce engines, for example), but innovation through decreasing cost (imagine if your factory is automated and the one abroad isn't or if you simply have a better skilled management team). It's absolute nonsense that any customer should be relied upon to make any decision other than with their wallet. If you want to bring politics into your spending (i.e. 'buying British' or 'buying green' then go ahead). I've certainly spent more money on a product because I've wanted it to come from a renewable source. However, the fact is that the tide is always going to be against these purchases. People want value, and will always want value until they have the money to decide otherwise. On average they aren't going to spend a penny more than they have to for your product than they have to.
Globalism has - by and large - been pretty good for the average person, but it's been excellent for the very top 1% and the benefits to the common man are slowing down hugely. That's a problem, but the solution isn't buying British apples or leaving the largest common market in the world. The point being that we don't mine much iron at all in the UK and haven't had the tin mines open for decades - is anyone complaining? Maybe one or two, but it's pretty much been accepted that no one wants to work down a mine, just like nobody really wants to be picking strawberries for 16k a year. Why are we trying to work backwards towards lower skilled, lower paid and less comfortable jobs? I'm sure many people find the idea of working in a bank abhorrent, but what about aerospace or marine engineering? Consultancy? Research? These are all things the UK excels at selling to the world and should be invested in further. The answer isn't to try and compete with China or India on price, but to innovate through providing products and services that other countries simply aren't able to tender. then who cares if your potatoes were farmed in Norfolk or the Netherlands?
Also, I hope you realise a 'capitalism pyramid' is actually a pretty good bit of 1900s propoganda fun at how unfair capitalism is. It's not an economic model at all lmao. Perhaps that was your intention? If so, sorry.
