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Big Boxes and Local Economic Development: What the Science Says
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Other Points About Wal-Mart
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Other Points About Wal-Mart
In many small communities, Wal-Mart is such a large employer that it likely operates as a monopsony or oligopsony buyer of labor services.
Wal-Mart is a major actor in land markets.