Is Wal-Mart Taking Over Small-Town America?

7 Pages 1728 Words

stores in Pittsburg. One of the stores is a Super Center and it just opened four months ago. It seems to me that Wal-Marts in the town of Pittsburg, Kansas don’t just earn money; they steal it from other businesses outright. The Wal-Mart way of beating the competition is to “choke smaller businesses by offering a wider variety of consumable and non-consumable products and goods at a more competitive, or cheaper, or discounted, price” (Norman 54).
“This is actually a very simple business tactic if you want to make money out of something in the end, first you must cut your profit margin in order to beat the other competitors and then you sell more, so you have to buy more so that you can sell more, so you have to spend more at first and reap the benefits in the end when consumers buy more of what you are selling. Wal-Mart stole an average of over $20 million on the average over the span on two years in the Kansan town of Pittsburg in the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years” (Buckman 48).
Do you want to beat Wal-M...