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The Wal-Mart Tragedy

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Michael Dudley
20 February 2004 - 8:00am

Floyd J. McKay say Wal-Mart is like a "neutron bomb, sucking life out of small towns."

"Wal-Mart feeds off the impoverishment of America. America's small and mid-sized towns are increasingly bereft of small businesses and dominated by big-box retailers; acres of barren asphalt parking lots, corporate managers on their way to the next-larger store, employees scrambling to keep low-wage jobs."

Full Story: Wal-Mart nation: the race to the bottom
Source: The Seattle Times, February 18, 2004
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