Why WalMart failed and why the mistakes shouldnt be repeated here

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	Why WalMart failed and why the mistakes shouldnt be repeated here

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8-16-2007 10:57 AM

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Allow WalMart (and other super-discount stores) to devastate local, small businesses because,</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Such large retailers bring economies of scale, lower prices and create more new jobs than the jobs lost in the once locally owned retail sector.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Allow these WalMart-types to import unlimited goods from cheap labor countries like China, even though doing so destroys high-paying US manufacturing jobs, because...</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">US workers must adjust to compete in the new global economy and, even though their once high-paying manufacturing jobs will be replaced with lower-paying service sector jobs - like those $10/hr. Jobs at WalMart -- they won't feel the pain because...</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">US workers will be able to buy the imported stuff for so much less at WalMart.</LI>
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