Walmart-- Lifestyles in rural areas

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Wal-Mart is one of the leading department stores within the United States . This particular chain of discount stores is the largest retail corporation globally but most of the stores are in rural towns . It bears noting that there are several critics on the benefits that people in rural areas are able to get from this firm . Basing on this , it is therefore the objective of this to confirm that Wal-Mart does not necessarily improve the lives of people who are living in the rural

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Wal-Mart dominated many small towns and rural areas especially the small retail businesses because independent store owners had to loose customers due to the in capacitance of the small businesses to favorably compete with this superstore in terms of economies of scale . Most of the affected businesses were clothing , drug , five-and-dime , fabric stores and sporting goods . This resulted in most of the lifestyles of the people who were in the rural areas to be negatively affected because the small scale businessmen actually lost their livelihood (http /www .jiffynotes .com /a_study_guides /book_notes /eueh_02 /eueh_02_010 03 .html , para .7

It is notable that much as Wal-Mart `pretends ' to offer employment opportunities to local residents in the rural areas , there are several lawsuits in court pertaining to wage issues against the firm . This has a negative impact on the lifestyle of the residents bent on the fact that they get wages that...