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lol. It's funny (or tragic) how many people actually think this is the case. Walmart (AFAIK) has never used predatory pricing because their costs are so much lower than everyone elses. Also funny is that so many people misunderstand how walmart achieves their supremely low costs, it's not by squeezing their suppliers (although they do do this), it's because they have phenomenally low administrative costs. They have one HQ location, their executives share hotel rooms at cheap hotels when they travel around. What horrific capitalist excess!

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They also save a lot of money by not meeting environmental standards, cutting people to part time so they don't get benefits, forcing people to work off the clock and using state money to pay employee benefits.