small town in oregon bans chain stores
small town in oregon bans chain stores
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Wallowa County city bans chain stores amid dollar store backlash
kinda based ngl
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small town in oregon bans chain stores
Wallowa County city bans chain stores amid dollar store backlash
kinda based ngl
Local business tyrants use local government to guarantee local monopolies, temporarily preventing larger monopolies from taking over. Amazon and Walmart will eat their lunch five years later.
Extremely temporarily if Amazon or Walmart wanted, they could make a few phone calls to their lawyers and this law would be effortlessly overturned in the courts
Local business tyrants rest on their laurels bereft of competition -> neolibs get elected and repeal this -> walmart and amazon effortlessly undercut their asses
As a bonus, people who can will just drive a town over or whatever to go to Wally Mart
Walmart is 1.5 hours away from this city
probably