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anonbanker[dead post] ◴[] No.13106730[source]
Thank you for this idea. I will be doing this every time I set foot in a wal-mart from this day forward.

"Two pounds of ham, please. Can you slice it really thin? I have a date with the household appliance section of the store"

djsumdog ◴[] No.13106832[source]
How about just not shopping at Wal-Mart? I stopped shopping there in 2009. When I returned to the US, I stopped shopping at Amazon because it had pretty much become the new Wal-Mart; maybe worse even.

This is cool tech and I'd want to try it, but I hate shopping anything Amazon. They had sd cards at their brick and mortar store, but I decided to buy one at Office Depot instead, even though it was $10 more.

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anonbanker ◴[] No.13106890[source]
Upvoted for sensibility.

in many rural areas of the United States, it is literally impossible to shop anywhere but Wal-Mart. Nebraska and Kansas had a rather large economic dive in the early 2000's due to the expansion of the Waltons. Their business plan is essentially:

1) Announce intention to move into area

2) woo politicians for financial kickbacks to subsidize expansion

3) launch with prices _far_ lower than all the competing grocery stores and harware stores.

4) Wait as other businesses run out of money due to not being able to compete on price.

5) raise prices once monopoly is established.

I moved from one of these places. Now I have 5 wal-marts in my city. I have zero issues with sabotaging their expansion into another country (Canada).

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1. umanwizard ◴[] No.13106969[source]
Isn't that illegal?
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2. anonbanker ◴[] No.13107043[source]
Not when the city council are your accomplices. Who is going to prosecute?
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3. vertex-four ◴[] No.13107054[source]
The best bit is that people will argue that it is literally impossible for this to happen.
4. literallycancer ◴[] No.13112015[source]
The state apparently.

>"The Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, state governments and private parties who are sufficiently affected may all bring actions in the courts to enforce the antitrust laws."[1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law