On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:06:07 -0600, Hot Broth > wrote:

>John Kuthe wrote:
>> **** Amazon and their
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>**** YOU TO HELL!!!
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>http://fee.org/freeman/wal-mart-is-g...r-the-economy/
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>Wal-Mart and Small Communities
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>The claim that Wal-Mart “disregards the concerns of small communities”
>is also contradicted by the evidence. If Wal-Mart’s stores were not in
>tune with the concerns of shoppers in small communities, the stores
>wouldn’t make a profit and would eventually shut down. If Wal-Mart’s
>stores were not in tune with the concerns of job seekers in those
>communities, the stores wouldn’t be able to staff their operations. The
>concerns that Wal-Mart rightly disregards are those of local businesses
>that would prefer not to have to deal with new competition. The absence
>of rigorous competition leads to high prices in many small communities.
>While this may be good for the profit margins of established businesses,
>it is not necessarily a condition to be preferred over the benefits for
>the majority of the inhabitants of the community that result from robust
>competition.
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>Wal-Mart runs the largest corporate cash-giving foundation in America.
>In 2004 Wal-Mart donated over $170 million. More than 90 percent of
>these donations went to charities in the communities served by Wal-Mart
>stores.7
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> From an economic perspective, when all the claims are dispassionately
>evaluated it looks like Wal-Mart promotes prosperity. The company is
>helping consumers get more for their money. It is providing jobs for
>willing employees. It is stimulating its suppliers to achieve greater
>economies in manufacturing. It is encouraging trade with less-developed
>economies, helping the inhabitants of Third World nations to improve
>their standards of living. Far from “disregarding the concerns of small
>communities,” Wal-Mart offers an appealing place to shop and work.
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>Wal-Mart is doing all these good things and making a profit of around $9
>billion a year.This is a profit margin of less than 4 percent.That’s
>mighty efficient. To call Wal-Mart a “corporate criminal” is slander.
>Wal-Mart is a model of how successful capitalism is supposed to work. It
>is a company that should be emulated, not reviled.
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>http://business.time.com/2012/06/04/...oming-to-town/
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>Homeowners, local chambers of commerce, and town planners alike all have
>some assumptions about Walmart. It’s often assumed that when a new
>Walmart opens in town, it’ll kill small businesses and may even hurt the
>local real estate market. But researchers say the effects of Walmart on
>a surrounding town are sometimes surprising: The numbers indicate that
>the presence of the big-box retailer may actually be good for home
>values and some small businesses—though not so good for waistlines.
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>In a new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research,
>Devin Pope and Jaren Pope, economists from the University of Chicago and
>Brigham Young University, respectively, investigated what the
>introduction of a Walmart store did to nearby home values in communities
>around the U.S. After analyzing 600,000 home purchases between 2001 and
>2006 in the vicinity of 159 new Walmarts, they found that homes located
>within half a mile of the Walmart rose in value 2% to 3% more relative
>to homes that weren’t close to the mammoth retailer. Homes located
>between .5-mile and one mile from Walmart also saw a boost in value,
>though it tended to be slightly smaller, with prices increasing 1% to 2%.
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>But the study also revealed that many other businesses were given a
>boost by the presence of Walmart. A CBS News story about the research noted:
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>Those selling products and, especially, services that Walmart doesn’t
>will tend to do well. Again, because shoppers arrive near Walmart ready
>to spend, they tend to leave their money with whomever nearby is selling
>what they want.
>Researchers noted that over time—often, a LONG period of time—the
>storefronts shuttered as a result of an inability to compete with
>Walmart tend to eventually be occupied by restaurants, boutique
>retailers, professional offices, and other services and businesses that
>do not try to compete with Walmart.
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**** MalWart too!! **** ALL of our Ownership Class!! Eat the rich!!
The Revolution's happening!! Yes there will be casualties, and
hopefully only those SCOTUS-backed ostensiblle "corporations are
people" like MalWart, AmaSUCKS, etc.!! Die you capitalist PIGS!!

John Kuthe...