"Two pounds of ham, please. Can you slice it really thin? I have a date with the household appliance section of the store"
"Two pounds of ham, please. Can you slice it really thin? I have a date with the household appliance section of the store"
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.
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).
> 5) raise prices once monopoly is established.
Do you have any evidence of this?
I'm originally from northern Arkansas and my town has store #0002. It opened in the 60s, but it was converted to one of the first Supercenters in the early 90s. As far as I know none of the local grocery stores there have closed - both of them are still there to this day.
I live in Charlottesville, VA today, and there are three WalMarts within ~25 miles of me - yet there are also many other regional and national chains operating in the area, the most notable of which is probably Wegman's which just expanded here.