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To: Conspiracy Guy
The notion that Wal-Mart is a "monopoly" is one of the great myths of the modern retail world.

Wal-Mart's market share in the retail sector today is a fraction of the market share of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (also known as A&P supermarkets) at the height of its domination -- and that company has been a story of almost constant decline since World War II.

149 posted on 06/02/2004 12:38:35 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: Alberta's Child

Walmart is not a monopoly. Walmart is an unintentional beast eating small town America. I don't shop Walmart because locally they stay full of customers because you can not buy and get out. I don't stand in lines since I got out of the military in the 70's. A&P was more regionally a threat and hardly ever put a corner store out of business. The other chains did that and put A&P out of business too with predatory pricing.

My feelings are when you buy the lowest price for the same product, fine. When you buy the cheap product ??????


186 posted on 06/02/2004 4:43:49 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Everything that really matters I learned from a song when I was 3. Jesus Loves Me!)
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