Reply #20: Yeah, but what about... [View All]

[Meldread]

...businesses like Wal-Mart, K-Mart and other such huge shopping centers?

I agree that in an ideal world there would be a nice and healthy mix of big and small business, but... it's always my feeling that larger businesses when they show up like to kill off smaller businesses and create local monopolies.

Manufacturing is a different beast all together. There really is no competition locally as the competition typically involves labor. A factory can always move elsewhere where there is a larger segment able to work and it really won't effect them overly much.