Since the 1980s, Wal-Mart Stores Have Appeared in Almost Every

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Since the 1980s, Wal-Mart stores have appeared in almost every community in America.Wal-Mart buys their goods in large quantities and therefore at cheaper prices. Walmart also locates its stores where land prices are low, usually outside of the community business district. Many customers shop at Wal-Mart because of low prices and free parking. Local retailers, like the neighborhood drug store, often go out of business because they lose customers. This story demonstrates that

A) consumers are boycotting local retailers
B) Wal-Mart engages in illegal acts of monopolization
C) there are diseconomies of scale in retail sales
D) there are economies of scale in retail sales
E) Wal-Mart is managed by ruthless business people