[ensignavenger]

If nothing changes for the customer, then why is it a bad thing? Why should consumer care who owns the clinic?

[snapetom]

Ideally they shouldn't care. I was giving an example of why consumers would choose to go to a corp clinic over independent - they simply don't know it's corporate owned.

I'm not going to argue whether it's bad. I've met plenty of good independent vets, plenty of bad ones. Plenty of good corporate vets, plenty of bad ones.