Last time Walmart tried to get a position in germany they just failed outright, nobody accepted the Walmart shopping culture here, not even the employees.
Locally walmart means absolute junk quality for poor people who wait in long lines. The description of Germany is a good fit for retail in general, but not walmart. This truth can't be stated in a commercial publication, walmart spends too much money on advertising, but I think it fairly obvious.
Now Target could have possibly made it. Or maybe walmart could have made it in far southern or eastern Europe in very poor areas.
I am pretty sure the other reailers in Germany like Aldi and Lidl teamed up to prevent Walmart from getting a foothold. They are extremely strong and this for a reason. I went to Walmart in Jena when they opened their shop there and was really underwhelmed by what they had to offer.
Walmart brought all kinds of weird american business ethics to Germany, like shouting the company's name every morning, an "ethics code" which disallowed employees to flirt with each other and a mandate to spy/report on colleagues. This was struck down in German courts and gave bad press. Together with a pro-union work force and cut throat competition of Aldi/Lidl/Metro Walmart did indeed fail miserably (and no one misses them).
I think some believe this was the reason why Wal-Mart failed in Germany. They brought this "can I help you" with them and German customers rather went to Aldi & co where they could shop in peace.
Add up all the businesses that have failed and you'll find plenty that disrespected some of their customers.
Walmart is a much higher bar geopolitically, but bet they have to jump too when word gets out of malfeasance. But it is a prisoner's dilemma when they are the main one-stop value shop.
You are sort of missing the point a little. Walmart frequently causes market imbalances with its massive buying power, forcing suppliers to make extremely low profit margins. A good deal of manufacturing went to China from the U.S. due to Walmart's practices. That's really not good for the U.S. economy.
On top of this, I'm not really sure I care if Walmart does fail. What I'm saying is that if it does, then that single participant will have suddenly massively increased unemployment simply by no longer being a going concern. Again, that's not healthy for an economy. Many smaller or medium sized players would probably be a healthier thing for the U.S. economy.
Are those failures a direct result of Amazon existing? I would venture to bet it’s one of the reasons but I would also point out that Walmart has done a lot of damage as have poor management decisions in a number of the companies you listed. Correlation is not causation.
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