> Does Walmart have to put anybody's stuff where they want in the aisles?

That could be an incredible boon to the ecoconomy.

As a younger man I gave up on the idea of making simple consumer products on realizing that the large supermarket chains around here could dash my work on the rocks by just a middle manager arbitrarily saying 'no' to stocking what I had made.

So yes, I think those companies should be forced to work with local businesses.