Up until a few weeks ago, we had three dive shops in town. Two of them had originally been one business, until the two partners in the business had a falling out and went their separate ways. The one partner kept the original location, while the other kept the original name. One of those two closed last month.
I lost any desire to do business with either of the two, as both former partners boasted about how they were screwing over the other in the split. One was gleeful that the court settlement awarded him all the shop assets, and that without said assets, the other guy was screwed. The other guy was gleeful that he hid away quite a few of the assets so that his former partner couldn't get them in the settlement. Both boasting to someone who was a customer in the store, and beforehand, had no idea what was going on between them.
Meanwhile, our regular "home" LDS never badmouthed either one, but just focused on taking care of their customers and running their own business to the best of their ability.
Incidentally, I heard that the one shop owner that recently closed up, blamed our regular LDS owner for putting him out of business. I hate to see any small, local business go under, but in this case, I can only think that the failing business has only itself to blame. I'm sure I'm not the only one that was put-off by the gloating attitude.