Really? A small grocer can afford to up and move a building far enough away from a Walmart to not feel it's presence.

Walmart was not 3.5, it was 18% margins

People have a say? BS!!!! Not unless you are a majority shareholder. Most of these companies don't need a shareholder vote to make decisions.

Big corporations raise living standards? Are you f-ing kidding me?!!! When Walmart puts out and Albertson's and 60-150 people who have the opportunity to make 14-16 per hour and replace it with 9 dollar per hour jobs that is raising a living standard? Buddy I've lived on both sides (being at the bottom of the food chain and the top) of this and you have got this all wrong.

The only ones who have a logical argument is the people at the top of these corporations. Sure, they create jobs, but the people who used to be middle class working at these jobs are losing more and more every year while the CEO's keep making more. Prime example would be Walmart. A department head at Walmart will make between 11-14$ per hour. Store managers can make up to 200k. Another example, Albertsons used to pay their grocery managers and department heads 60-70k per year. Now a starting grocery manager can expect to make 42k per year, and a department head will make about 33k. Now tell me these corporations are helping us out. These jobs used to be able to support a four person household. Not anymore! And who is reaping the benny's out of this? The stockholders and higher level management. Wake up America! If you look back 15 years ago at these wages you could have a pretty comfortable living situation. Especially since housing was only a fraction of what it is today, gasoline was 99 cents, food was literally half the cost. The middle class getting the shaft for 15 years! Sure would be nice if we ever got some of the middle class into our government to run things for a change!!!!!