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dutch777

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2. Walmart winning means someone else is losing. Concentrating business in just a few is not winning in the long run

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 12:45 PM

Aug 21

Increasingly our choices and options erode to less and less players-- be that retail, airlines, tech companies, etc. Long term that is not good for controlling inflation and consumers abilities to have choices. Not to mention the economic and political power these mega-businesses can wield all too often for ill.

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Walmart Wins Over More Shoppers as Tariffs Push Prices Higher [View all] Mosby Aug 21 OP

Only 1/3 of their products come from overseas, my ass. gab13by13 Aug 21 #1

Walmart winning means someone else is losing. Concentrating business in just a few is not winning in the long run dutch777 Aug 21 #2

Probably squeezing someone else to eat the tariffs, someone who can't absord it. dem4decades Aug 21 #4

I have not shoped Walmart for decades. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 21 #3

On their website they list prices by OZ now to hide price hikes JCMach1 Aug 21 #5

They promise low prices. You are better off going to a better store when they have a sale Blue Full Moon Aug 21 #6