I have been to the Wal-Mart stores in Pittsburg. One of the stores is a Super Center and it just opened four months ago. It seems to me that Wal-Marts in the town of Pittsburg, Kansas don't just earn money; they steal it from other businesses outright. The Wal-Mart way of beating the competition is to "choke smaller businesses by offering a wider variety of consumable and non-consumable products and goods at a more competitive, or cheaper, or discounted, price" (Norman 54). .
"This is actually a very simple business tactic if you want to make money out of something in the end, first you must cut your profit margin in order to beat the other competitors and then you sell more, so you have to buy more so that you can sell more, so you have to spend more at first and reap the benefits in the end when consumers buy more of what you are selling. Wal-Mart stole an average of over $20 million on the average over the span on two years in the Kansan town of Pittsburg in the 2002 and 2003 fiscal years" (Buckman 48).
Do you want to beat Wal-Mart by keeping it from invading small towns like Pittsburg and making their downtown business community and shopping malls into a perpetual ghost land since everyone and their brother shops at Wal-Mart instead and local businesses are going out of business left and right because of Wal-Mart stranglehold on the economy in Pittsburg? .
The following strategies that I will discuss really happened in Pittsburg and these steps were ultimately taken to snuff out Wal-Mart's financial hold on this town and make other businesses and stores financially viable and healthy again. Yes, you can be victorious and help to shut Wal-Mart out for good. A third Wal-Mart store was even prevented from opening near the local college campus because of petitioners signing off on a petition to prevent a new Wal-Mart from opening up shop and stealing business from local college-based clients.