If only Wal-Mart ran Hollywood

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Watching the forthcoming Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price is a wrenching experience. It paints a picture of a gigantic retail corporation that has moved into towns across America for 20 years and torn their hearts out. By offering low costs to consumers it has done immeasurable damage to local economies because the entire inventory of an owner-operated local store can now be found in a single aisle of a Wal-Mart. Those who lose their livelihoods as a result have a stark choice facing them: if they're young, they can leave; if they're not, they can go to work, for low wages and benefits, at Wal-Mart.

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Now this is a tragedy for small cities, but I can think of one town that might benefit from the Wal-Mart business model: Hollywood.
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/patterson/story/0,,1768407,00.html