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Have you ever heard anyone say what is Wal-Mart? No, or at least I have not. It is one of the most successful business's world wide, and it continues to integrate itself into people's lives everywhere. Everyone likes the low cost and convenience of the "One stop shop". However, no one ever brings up the fact that Wal-Mart is having a detrimental effect to not only our economy, but to our communities within the U.S. and our brethren all across the globe
In every major city I have ever been to there is a Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has even manage to force there way into many smaller cities as well. Some of the problems with Wal-Mart range from putting smaller business's out of business that cannot compete, to overworking their people, and putting a strain on our taxpayers. One might say that smaller business's are just unlucky and that's the way the cookie crumbles, but a lot of people who have that mind set might not know that Wal-Mart received a whopping 1,008,000,000 billion dollars......

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