Most of Wal-Mart’s success has come at the expense of the small merchant. What should Wal-Mart do, if anything, to help other small businesses in the community survive? Why?

The small town was in need of a hired gun. The people were tired of dealing with the local price-fixing merchant scum who ran the town like a company store. This low-life bunch held the people of the town in a death grip; the townspeople believed they overcharged on every purchase. In spite of what appeared to be a case of collusion, the law was powerless to do anything. What competition there was had been effectively eliminated.