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 (DIR) Post #AkyRMfreOEHLCxcdZg by Asbestos@pnw.zone
       2024-08-14T23:24:53Z
       
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       One problem with big chain stores swallowing everything up is it destroys small towns.A local grocery store is going to have a local attorney, a local CPA... They will use a variety of local companies. That means those small businesses can survive in a smaller town. Walmart has almost all its "higher functions" sent off to big city firms and tends to use large regional companies for M&O stuff
       
 (DIR) Post #AkyRMh93cznTBEm3LU by Asbestos@pnw.zone
       2024-08-14T23:24:53Z
       
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       So the town becomes a bunch of employees. Not small businesses.When Walmart showed up everywhere in the 80s it was primarily the lefty types that opposed it. They were given a hard time as "being against progress" and "not knowing how things worked"Then they all got laid off as factories closed and cheap Chinese crap poured in.Now they are upset at because exactly what the anti Walmart people told them was going to happen, did