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Using creative new methods, they find that the costs Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher unemployment in the wider community
by digitcatphd 2y ago
Using creative new methods, they find that the costs Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher unemployment in the wider community outweigh the savings it provides for shoppers.
> This consolidation is the root cause
- bluGill 2y agoCreative because they don't account for all the people who now can work better paying more productive jobs.
- freeone3000 2y agoWhat jobs? Rural and suburban communities not linked to an urban area have less and less every year. The cities are growing and towns are dying: there are very few new jobs, much less “more productive” ones. Think on it for a second: if you could work a better job than small grocery store employee, wouldn’t you have already? Why would you wait on walmart to exist?
- bluGill 2y agoIf you can't do better move to those cities - they need you. Rural areas need your land for more farming
- digitcatphd 2y agoIt's very simple actually. For instance, let's assume Walmart automotive takes maybe 2-3 FT employees to operate, where this may normally be fragmented across 2-3 local mechanics employing 3-6 FT employees each. Then of course you have the 2-3 local services which catered to them (E.g. cleaning services, real estate agents, CPAs, ect). Then, multiply this for each Walmart department (Electronics, Groceries, Pharmacy, Auto, Household, ect.) and there's your town.
- bluGill 2y agoWalmart mechanics are no better that any other shop which is why indepndant shops are still around in cities. you picked a bad example, in other places walmart is more efficent. again though you failed to figure what those people do instead - there are still plenty of jobs they are just not retail and probably in a bigger city.