Why does everyone complain about Wal-Mart...is someone holding a gun to peoples heads and telling them to shop there? If you want to save the little buisness, then go there and shop. It's really just that easy people.
I go to Wal-Mart, because most of their prices are low and I can get more food for my money. If Food Lion has something on sale at a better price, then guess what, I'm gonna go there instead.
I always hear/read people saying how Wal-Mart kills the little business, which I understand, because they can't compete with the volume discoutns Wal-Mart gets. But if you want to save the little buisness, then by all means put your money where your mouth is and go there and buy from their stores.
It's just like complaining about TV Programming and Radio Shows, if you don't like it, don't watch it, don't listen to it and don't shop there.
Pretty much a simple as that.
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I am by no means championing the company, but I do think that if you want to stop someone, the best way to do it, is to not patronize their business. Not giving money to them and giving it to the companies you want to save is at least being more proactive then just saying something and doing nothing.
Respectfully, I argue that this particular expression of yours is wrong 10 ways to Sunday. But one fact check first: Wal-Mart is not just a large company, it is (according to Fortune Magazine) the largest company in the world, with over two million employees, $378 billion in revenue and $12.73 billion in profits. (By the way, the article linked below notes that a high proportion of Wal-Mart employees have "some form of health care." True that, but here in Maryland over 40% of Wal-Mart employees are on Medicare, which Wal-Mart has helped people sign up for.)
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2008/snapshots/2255.html
But the crux of your argument belies a larger truth. I don't shop at Wal-Mart, never have, and have returned things that other members of my family have bought at Wal-Mart (with their knowledge). That has not stopped Wal-Mart from putting competitors that I have supported with my dollars out of business, for the simple reason that the vast majority of my neighbors care far more about price than anything else. The only way to keep Wal-Mart from putting smaller rivals out of business is to keep Wal-Mart from locating in a given market. (A small town near where I grew up in Pennsylvania has kept Wal-Mart from changing a zoning ordinance that they need to develop a piece of farmland they bought to put a store on -- a fight that has been going on since the mid-1980s. And the small stores are still there.)
The economies of scale that Wal-Mart competes in are just astronomical compared to anything people study in basic economics. Wal-Mart is the largest U.S. retailer in consumer electronics, books and jewelry, to name three that have been true for at least the last three years. What California's emissions laws can do to Detroit are nothing compared to what Wal-Mart policies have on suppliers.
Given it's size, and the wealth it has generated for its owners, I believe Wal-Mart has a far greater obligation to the society that so privileges it. Obviously, the folks in Bentonville don't agree. Who said the Robber Barons and Monopoly Capitalism were gone?