TennesseeTuxedo said:
bball said:
Your post got me to looking...as of May 2019, looks like Amazon is top dog.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2019/05/15/worlds-largest-retailers-2019-amazon-walmart-alibaba/
I was referring to retailers who actually maintain brick and mortar stores in the communities they serve hiring local folks to work there as opposed to faceless online marketing monopolies who until recently skirted paying taxes in the states they sold their wares.
I see my friend. You're definitely on the fringe with that line of thinking. "Brick and mortar" stores is such a stone aged line of thinking nowadays. We live in the era of cyberspace! ;-)
Seriously though, Wal mart is getting and will continue to get what they deserve. It's the natural economic cycle of things. Wal mart killed mom and pop shops across this nation(grocers, hardware, clothing, sporting goods) and now, Amazon will do to them, that which they did to others. People heralded Wal-Mart coming to their community. Now, we fickle people herald Amazon Prime. Most do not consider the overall impact on their local economies. Instead of building Wal marts, we should have kept production of the products Wal mart peddles in these local communities instead of sending it to China, Mexico, Bangladesh and everywhere else that produces our goods for us on the low down dirt cheap.