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		brational on Feb 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappear... In the real world, you have edge cases where the supply/demand curves run out of room and no one has any capital left to open a grocery store.

bluejekyll on Feb 7, 2016 [–]

This is the thing that I keep thinking about. If Walmart comes in and essentially extracts the wealth of the community (profits of the store) and then leaves, how long does it take for that community to recover? How long before they can actually afford to invest in more stores to fill the gap?

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