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This may be more my emotional/irrational reaction than anything, and if so please correct me. Seeing how WalMart treats it’s own poeple, and the lack of concern

This may be more my emotional/irrational reaction than anything, and if so please correct me. Seeing how WalMart treats it’s own poeple, and the lack of concern they’ve ever shown to the impacts of their stores on communities, I kind of doubt their commitment to my health in this scenario. I wouldn’t trust them to deliver what’s best for me, just what’s profitable for them.

Consultant32452 9y ago
I think you're missing the market effects of having a Wal-Mart. If Walmart moves in and offers MRIs at half the price of everyone else, then everyone else will have to offer better prices to compete. Someone who might not have been able to get an MRI at all will now have the Walmart option, and you'll still benefit from lower prices at your "premium" option.
prepend 9y ago
Have you ever worked retail? Retail is just kind of a bad industry that sucks to work in. It’s generally unskilled with high turnover. So while Walmart sucks compared to desk jobs, it’s pretty good for retail. I think they are great for communities. I lived in a rural community as a kid for many years without Walmart. We had no book store, no music store. Small under 1k people and one stoplight. They literally had only one science fiction book in the library (broken lands from empire of the east by saberhagen, super awesome book. Weird that that was the one) Walmart opened close-by and all of a sudden I could buy books. They had so many more options. We didn’t have to drive 40 minutes for groceries. About 1/3 of the Main Street stores closed but they really sucked. Interestingly their employees had zero benefits and zero sexual harassment protections. It was a small town where if you worked for the dime store you got no vacation, no benefits, got paid 50% if you were black. Lots of lame stuff. At least wal mart paid you some benefits. Walmart isn’t some all positive entity, there are negatives. But they aren’t horrible and are a huge positive force for the poor by lowering prices. It’s very frustrating to hear a rich person complain about Walmart when they haven’t had to need their groceries being 20% cheaper than Kroger or 50% less than Whole Foods.

Consultant32452 9y ago

I think you're missing the market effects of having a Wal-Mart. If Walmart moves in and offers MRIs at half the price of everyone else, then everyone else will have to offer better prices to compete. Someone who might not have been able to get an MRI at all will now have the Walmart option, and you'll still benefit from lower prices at your "premium" option.

prepend 9y ago

Have you ever worked retail? Retail is just kind of a bad industry that sucks to work in. It’s generally unskilled with high turnover. So while Walmart sucks compared to desk jobs, it’s pretty good for retail. I think they are great for communities. I lived in a rural community as a kid for many years without Walmart. We had no book store, no music store. Small under 1k people and one stoplight. They literally had only one science fiction book in the library (broken lands from empire of the east by saberhagen, super awesome book. Weird that that was the one) Walmart opened close-by and all of a sudden I could buy books. They had so many more options. We didn’t have to drive 40 minutes for groceries. About 1/3 of the Main Street stores closed but they really sucked. Interestingly their employees had zero benefits and zero sexual harassment protections. It was a small town where if you worked for the dime store you got no vacation, no benefits, got paid 50% if you were black. Lots of lame stuff. At least wal mart paid you some benefits. Walmart isn’t some all positive entity, there are negatives. But they aren’t horrible and are a huge positive force for the poor by lowering prices. It’s very frustrating to hear a rich person complain about Walmart when they haven’t had to need their groceries being 20% cheaper than Kroger or 50% less than Whole Foods.