Because Wal-Mart doesn't care if the supplier goes out of business and will benefit while the supplier dies. You've never heard of a company killing a supplier by playing games with their contracts and payments before?
It seems that reading your concern that they are too big and powerful indicates you MIGHT support some regulation on them, is that correct?
Not particularly, no, because I think Wal-Mart will eventually blow itself out. You'll notice that several Wal-Mart shoppers on this thread have noticed the loss in quality and no longer buy their durable goods there. I think they are failing to recognize the limits to their own mode of operation. I simply think that all the pain that gets caused learning this lesson is stupid. At some point, Wal-Mart is going to recognize that they've sacrificed too much quality to cut prices, which will happen after enough consumers realize this and stop buying durable goods at Wal-Mart. But there will be a lot of pain between now and then.
You obviously love your right to free speech, but you seem to want to limit other people's right to a free choice.
Again, please point out where I've said that Wal-Mart should be regulated. You can't, because I haven't. So instead you simply pretend that I have.
I do, however, realize that liberty is a delicate thing and that it tends to be one of the first things sacrificed during times of social or economic unrest. If the Wal-Mart style of business leads to sufficient economic distress, those people left out won't be voting Republican. Given a sufficient number of them, we'll wind up with a socialist government that will make Old Europe proud.
What I'm suggesting is that people practice their liberty responsibly, with some awareness of the consequences of their actions. Liberty is constantly struggling against security and often loses in the face of insecurity (in fact, civilization itself is a sacrifice of the freedom of a hunter-gatherer existence for the security of farming, a wall, and an army provided by an overlord). If the Wal-Mart style of business creates sufficient insecurity, it won't be me that takes your liberty away from you.
What verbose nonsense.