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Big box stores dominate us more than ever. Walmarts everywhere. I consider amazon to be an online big box store.

• bobthepanda 6y ago
  Generally speaking, today's big box stores are actually not the same physical ones as the first generation. Walmart has not really opened new stores, mostly closing them in recent years: https://www.mashed.com/148703/the-real-reason-walmart-is-closing-down-stores/ https://www.mashed.com/148703/the-real-reason-walmart-is-clo... And to be clear, when I say big box store, I do mean the physical store itself; Amazon has a lot of the same market segments, but they are not themselves opening stores in large amounts.