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But the rub here is that it'll be like a new Walmart opening in your town. Before too long everyone is shopping at Walmart and all the small local businesses shut down because they can't compete with the prices and purchasing power of one of the largest corporations in the world.
Once that happens, all those workers get jobs at Walmart and then spend 80% of their paycheck buying products from Walmart. This leaves the town poor as a majority of the money circulating around gets sent out to Bentonville Arkansas where it goes into the Walton's bank accounts to be used to hire more lawyers to get them out of yet another vehicular manslaughter charge.
This shit is how the US wound up like we are today with rampant homelessness and shit wages, but all people care about are seeing those low prices on the store shelves.
No it's more like Aldi and Lidl coming and opening up next to the big supermarket of the town. The local shops have already been killed by Walmart or in my country Tesco. Aldi and Lidl come in and undercut the giant and skim off a portion of the trade, and a portion of the people work there instead. The big supermarket can't muscle them out because they're far bigger companies than they look.
I would love to have an Aldi nearby instead of whatever Kroger behemoth I'm stuck with.
Aldis is the reason I can barely tread water with all my part time jobs.