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Walmart's First Healthcare Services "Super Center" Opens

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They have been more proactive than many on the left will give them credit for. Fixed cost prescriptions, all employees can enroll in their health insurance. I think this is something that could work out nationally. Sure I wouldn't want chemo or surgery there, but for routine stuff, why not. I could shop while I waited for my bloodwork results :2razz:
 
All this is is more centralizing of power for big box stores. This may be an anti-trust issue. Walmart has already devestated american small businesses. This will just proliferate the damage.
 
All this is is more centralizing of power for big box stores.

So a large retail chain of stores = "centralized power". Lemme guess, you're a Bernie supporter, correct?

This may be an anti-trust issue.

lol, my goodness. Where do you people come from.


Walmart has already devestated american small businesses.

Yes, total devastation:

As of the 2010 Census, there were 27.9 million small businesses registered in the United States, compared to just 18,500 companies of 500 employees or more. Included in that total figure are sole proprietorships (73.2 percent), corporations (19.5 percent), and franchises (2 percent). 52 percent of small businesses are home-based. The most important thing to note? 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms are small businesses.

Only 99.7 percent left, which Walmart will soon destroy. God forbid you actually check some of your garbage assertions before posting them.
 
So a large retail chain of stores = "centralized power". Lemme guess, you're a Bernie supporter, correct?



lol, my goodness. Where do you people come from.




Yes, total devastation:

As of the 2010 Census, there were 27.9 million small businesses registered in the United States, compared to just 18,500 companies of 500 employees or more. Included in that total figure are sole proprietorships (73.2 percent), corporations (19.5 percent), and franchises (2 percent). 52 percent of small businesses are home-based. The most important thing to note? 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms are small businesses.

Only 99.7 percent left, which Walmart will soon destroy. God forbid you actually check some of your garbage assertions before posting them.

Your opinions are as garbage as your username.

Yes, I am for the only pro-worker candidate. I don't worship at the **** trough of Trumpism like you.
 
All this is is more centralizing of power for big box stores. This may be an anti-trust issue. Walmart has already devestated american small businesses. This will just proliferate the damage.

This gives Walmart an itty bit too much credit, in my opinion. Walmart isn't going to lay waste to a $3.5 Trillion industry any time soon. But if they started to put some competitive downward pressures on prices in the industry, that would be a good thing. We could take note of what's working to be more cost-effective and the rest of the industry would have to start implementing some of that cost-effectiveness, which is badly needed.
 
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The real target isn't healthcare, it's the thousands of independent urgent care centers already in service.

I don't see this as a urgent care alternative. It looks to me as a lumping together of all the outlying healthcare systems. They offer optic, dental, lab work, prescriptions, and hearing. Most of these are generally not part of a normal healthcare policy. Walmart has always offered items cheaper by buying them in large quantities. I would be highly surprised if this is not just more of the same. For, example they will buy eyeglass frames by the thousands and get them much cheaper than the local shop who buys 10 frames can.
 
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