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In reply to the discussion: You Will Not Believe What Wal-Mart is Doing [View all]madokie
(51,076 posts)Walmart is not a good company, period.
My home town just allowed a walmart grocery store and its already hurting the local store that has been there for years. Undercutting prices by a few cents here and there until they get the other business's out of the way then they will do as they do every time they come to a location. Yup, you got it, they raise prices and with no competition they get by with it.
30 years ago in this area we had a ton of business who offered about anything you wanted or needed and now they're all gone. Business who were here for years, Otasco, Western Auto, for a couple and both gone and many aren't old enough to even remember them being the place you went to get a lot of the stuff they go to walmart to get today. All these business that are gone paid a livable wage too. In the big store up the road a ways I feel safe in saying out of the 100 or so employees that maybe a handful are paid a livable wage if that.
fuck walmart