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drtywater OP t1_ixzil1s wrote

Its not quite that simple. They do offer some benefits you can’t get at small places. People blame big box retailers for poorly run businesses going out

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mshelikoff t1_iy0xylv wrote

Oh it's all so very complicated when wealthy investors from faraway lands with authoritarian rule put some of their wealth into NYSE:WMT instead of investing it all in nearby oppression. What those investors with connections to Erdogan's AKP party in Turkey or to the Qatari government want is for Walmart to help local working class folks in small-town USA because that's the community they care about, right? It's all about those benefits that you can't get at small businesses. Consumers like me should be so grateful to foreign investors when a big box store pops up nearby. What a great point. It's all so complicated. When will I realize that business owners who live near me is a bad thing because they deny these opportunities for people far away to have a diverse investment portfolio?

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