[protomyth]

Those businesses are still around, it is pretty easy given what Walmart actually sells. Amazon is more a pain for a lot of those businesses.

[code_duck]

The ones that are still around, are still around. There's been plenty of documentation of walmart's negative effect on small cities' retail, manufacturing and tax bases.

[protomyth]

And that documentation would be (the manufacturing and tax base info would be interesting)? I see it quoted a lot, but I don't see much in the way of independent studies (and I am disinclined to believe union studies as much as I won't believe Walmart internal reports).

[code_duck]

Walmart's practice of locating stores just outside of municipalities to avoid local sales tax affects sales tax revenues.

[protomyth]

Got the statistics on that with the number of other businesses that followed the same strategy?

[code_duck]

Alas, this is not something I actively research or claim to have expertise regarding.