If government benefits are set at a level higher than the prevailing market-clearing wage, perhaps the benefit level should be reduced, perhaps the minimum wage should be raised, or perhaps that Walmart should close its doors, which surely would increase rather than decrease government benefit expenditures.
Wishing that there were more high-paying jobs than currently are able to be supported in a local economy rarely works.
Walmart Local Town would still be the big employer in some towns. (And, to the extent that Walmart Local Town is providing better jobs than the next best alternative for town employees, they should be lauded rather than vilified, IMO.)
That's why I avoid many automations that could save me time. Some menial work can actually bring some insight into what I'm doing (like reading over a document manually instead of using Grammarly to correct it for instance...)
As for exercise: you get more exercise walking through walmart than driving from small store to small store and parking in front of each - which is what really happens with small stores in small towns. (tourists will walk the street, but locals don't - they park in front of the one store and then are gone - though more likely the locals drive the the big city mall for their shopping and again get their exercise, leaving those local stores for tourists who don't realize this isn't how locals live).
> This consolidation is the root cause
Think on it for a second: if you could work a better job than small grocery store employee, wouldn’t you have already? Why would you wait on walmart to exist?
you picked a bad example, in other places walmart is more efficent.
again though you failed to figure what those people do instead - there are still plenty of jobs they are just not retail and probably in a bigger city.