[culi]

I'm a big fan of PWAs, but this really seems like small fries compared to something like Walmart which has an internal planned economy many times larger than the Soviet Union ever achieved.

If you sell your product in Walmart they basically own everything about it. They deem how you make your product, the supply chain, the prices you charge, everything

And they use this incredibly granular level of control to run out any possible competition

[midoridensha]

I guess that's why Amazon, Best Buy, local grocery stores, etc. all went out of business.

Oh wait...

[pwinnski]

I think you meant that as sarcasm, but...

Fry's Electronics closed completely, while Best Buy keeps closing stores and laying people off at an accelerated rate[0].

Local grocery stores are almost extinct, as Walmart[1], Amazon, Kroger, and Albertson's crowd out or buy out everyone else.

It's a serious problem, your sarcasm notwithstanding.

0. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/business/best-buy-store-closu...

1. https://ilsr.org/walmarts-monopolization-of-local-grocery-ma...