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Facebook is to privacy as Wal-Mart is to small retail business.

• Saavedro 13y ago
  s/small business/small retail/
  • liamondrop 13y ago
    quite
• tzs 13y ago
  Has it actually been proven that Wal-Mart is detrimental to small retail business? I know, it seems obvious on the face of it. Wal-Mart comes to Mayberry, and Walker's Drug Store and Foley's Grocery and Weaver's Department Store can't compete and go out of business. ...except weren't those already nailed before Wal-Mart got there by Walgreen's and Safeway and JC Penny? I suspect that when a place is big enough to support a Wal-Mart, it's already attracted enough big national chains that the small guys are dead or dying.
  • mikeash 13y ago
    Wal-Mart is able to survive and thrive in environments where other chains can't. They can be the first, not the last, big national retail chain to move in. The town where I went to high school got one. Before they showed up, there were no other big chains of anything in that sort of business. The closest were some of the standard big chain fast food joints and gas stations. Walgreens, Safeway, JC Penney, none of them existed there. I left before the Wal-Mart came so I didn't really see how things changed with it. I have no idea if it was good or bad for small businesses (of which there wasn't much to destroy anyway) or the town as a whole. I'm just addressing the idea that Wal-Mart would somehow be a latecomer.