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I just despise this, the deck is stacked against us so hard that a normal life feels so.... Utopian in how impossible it is to acquire.

I thoroughly enjoyed this article. It was full of cited information and even the sources led to interesting reads.

The Walton Family are terrorists

For the morons out there: No, this does not mean high prices are good. It just means low prices can sometimes be bad if certain principles aren't in play. You're welcome.

This just in, studies rediscover basic functions of an economy. Again.

A few more studies bro, just a few more. We are sure to figure this stuff out if we just do another study.

Another quality-of-life lowering thing caused by Walmart/Amazon that's obvious but they didn't go into, is that once Walmart and Amazon have eliminated so many local businesses, everyone is forced to shop at them. Even if we don't want to, we have nowhere else to go--we can't just boycott them and still get stuff we need.

Walmart decides what you will and won't have access to buy. They've pared down the variety of brands and offer a subset of items by those brands minimum, for their efficiency of ordering and stocking items, including groceries. Then the brands stop making the items that Walmart decided not to stock, so they're gone. There are still a few other grocery stores but most have them have merged into a few mega-grocery chains with the same issues as with Walmart.

So even if you're OK with going to Walmart your choices are limited (those of us old enough to remember things we used to be able to buy that are long gone these days may notice this more). So what it's come down to is you get what Walmart offers you, or you order it from Amazon or Temu. There are still a few places to get real things of good quality, but they're harder to find, never local stores, so you have to order online sight unseen, and of course it's an expensive and time-consuming process compared to being able to just go to the store and grab something.

Hard to start a business when your competitor is Walmart.

Hard to make a living when the main employer is Walmart.

Hard to move when you don't have any money.

Walmart encourages their employees to apply for federal and state programs like food stamps because they don't give their employees enough hours and give them weird shifts making it hard to even have another job.

And then they want them to use them at Walmart.

It's disgusting.

No fucking shit.

This was news in like 1990.

Their stores extract local spending dollars and transfer them to shareholders who live in gated communities.

If they paid more in wages than a store made in profits they would close the store.

This was proven decades ago.

It should be illegal to pay people wages that require them to take public assistance

Isn't this obvious?

If an outside Corp comes in displacing local business, the profits that would cycle back into that community now get taken out. It doesn't matter what the prices are, when the community as a whole has less money with each transaction.

Wastes vasts amounts of urban land on parking instead of housing or more businesses

Is often so deep in parking lots and strip malls its impossible to walk to

Cheap prices and cheap chinese manufacturing to help eliminate local competition

Massive corporation has more bulk buying power than local competition

Designed to be a one stop shop, fix your car, buy a tv and grab some food

Self checkouts pays robots instead of people in the community the store is in

The people who do work there are paid shit wages for life, often not even keeping up with inflation meaning they actually get paid less every year

Probably paying less taxes than they should be for the amount of space the business takes up and the amount of traffic generated

Helps promote car centric design which is a terribly ineffecient and expensive way to move people within an urban area.

I was buying camping equipment from walmart. They were out of some of my supplies and a new tent I wanted. I ordered alternative items from a online store and they were so much higher quality than the ones at walmart. Walmart squeezes its suppliers so much you end up with items that are more cheaply made. I've tested this on several different items and have discovered that walmart sources many of their brands straight from china. You can buy the same cheap shit from temu.

Sounds like a national security threat. More directly threatening on a daily basis than many other things they claim are threats.

Walmart is bad for small town America. And the rest of America too.

Low prices AND low value. The cheap ass shit they sell is intended to break and be replaced as quickly as possible. E.g. cheap clothes that wear out quickly. Those who can't afford better are thus trapped in a cycle of repeat buying.