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It's not the case that people employed by Walmart were previously relying 100% on the taxpayer. Many of them may have been working for smaller retail outfits wh
by mexfff 9y ago
It's not the case that people employed by Walmart were previously relying 100% on the taxpayer. Many of them may have been working for smaller retail outfits which treated their workers decently and went out of business because they couldn't compete on price with Walmart.
- twoodfin 9y agoThe point of my example (which has some mapping to the real world) is that Costco does successfully compete with Walmart and pays “decent” wages, but to a lot fewer people. Costco has put smaller retail outlets out of business, too.
- maxerickson 9y agoCostco doesn't compete with Walmart. It is much more selective about where it places stores (each store needs to serve many more people) and it stocks a smaller number of mostly higher revenue items.