Even though Walmart’s positives and negatives seem to even out, the negatives greatly outweigh the positives. Walmart does not help America. Although the store attracts many people and increases consumption and output greatly, the company is powerful and is always in control of the market. Firstly, Walmart’s participation in predatory prices gain them market power, taking many small companies out of business. For example, Walmart is blamed for closing pharmacies, groceries, and specialty shops, because of their tactic in pricing. According to an article by Money, called, “The New Way That Walmart is Ruining America’s Small Towns,” small businesses that are nothing close to the size of Walmart “get trampled by the low prices made possible
