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Conflict & Cohesion. Conflict is in our entertainment…. Family Businesses Shut Their Doors When Wal-Mart Comes to Town . Whenever a new Wal-Mart opens, small businesses—from dress shops and pharmacies to hardware, auto supply and music stores—close their doors and good jobs disappear.
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Family Businesses Shut Their Doors When Wal-Mart Comes to Town Whenever a new Wal-Mart opens, small businesses—from dress shops and pharmacies to hardware, auto supply and music stores—close their doors and good jobs disappear. According to the city of Los Angeles 2003 report on big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart, big box retailers and supercenters “often can result in the reduction of consumer choice due to their tendency to cannibalize competing retail businesses.” While Wal-Mart kills family retail businesses and pushes out jobs that pay well, it also forces suppliers to relocate their plants overseas to meet its low-price demands
“Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors,” wrote business reporter Charles Fishman in the Dec 2003 issue of Fast Company magazine : “To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.” “Suppliers are just as much under the gun to deliver costs savings as are Wal-Mart's nonunion, part-time workers,” Jeffrey Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, wrote March 8, 2004, in the Toronto newspaper, The Globe and Mail.
At the same time, Wal-Mart is the single largest importer of Chinese goods, buying some $18 billion in merchandise in 2004, nearly 10 percent of all Chinese goods sold in the United States, which currently has a $124 billion trade deficit with China. By supporting foreign-made goods on such a massive scale, the company that trumpets its All-American image is creating incentives for corporations to destroy good jobs in the United States.
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