1. Walmart sells very poor quality products, mostly from Asia (China, India, etc.).
Why is that and what if said company could buy it and sell it cheaper because they could save on expense.
You know there are arguably legitimate concerns about Amazon. One thing that I have observed Amazon has done that is ultimately good. They have provided a market place for thousands of small independent businesses and manufacturers. Business and manufacturers who would have never had a chance in the old retail market place. Business who would never have been exposed to a market large enough to grow their business beyond just a regional specialty outlet.
Amazon has had some positive effect in that direction absolutely but it also stifles competition and treats its employees poorly. And frankly, could be replaced by a public marketplace that gets such benefits while also not preventing multiple private options which Amazon intentionally makes sure you have few options.
So in what world can you site as an example a public marketplace that can provide this exposure this world wide market. That can provide this kind of opportunity for small businesses. Not even in a competitive comparison. One that is viable without perpetually escalating subsidies.
Sure, I have 1 medium of public marketplace that you might be familiar with and find valuable. Currency. Currency is a publicly owned medium of commerce. But governments also very often operate public venues for markets.
The USPS has managed to survive just fine until it was deliberately undermined and even then still works pretty well - not all public services will require infinite funding or be plagued with inefficiency.
None - that’s why when I mention USPS we have alternatives, because public services can have down falls, yet they can also facilitate trade. Amazon heavily uses USPS.
Hence why there should be an option people can use that isn’t strictly worried about making money.
Just because public services can have their problems doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t have the option to sell their goods in a public marketplace.
Again, public services don’t mean no private options - it means that the options aren’t solely motivated to extract.
I never advocated for that, I advocated for a public marketplace that makes it so that people are not forced to use Amazon. Remember Amazon has Amazon basics as well and is a competitor to a lot of the businesses who have no choice but to use Amazon.
It's not about a company that managed to save on expense and sell it lower than the competitions. It's about a company that tried to sell for lower than the price they buyed it in order to drive out the competition, which isn't allowed in Germany. (and shouldn't be allowed imo)
Wal-mart is accused of that in almost every city in the USA when they build/open a new store. Come in. Lower prices on decent items, tun the mom/pop stores out of business, then progressively get cheaper and thinner profucts at an ever increasing cost. They did it again and again. People complain. Law suits fly but everyywas sneaking in and out of the store in odd hours
Walmart!
Walmart had a saying price it low and watch it go. Some items might be below cost. But turns of items sold is what made up the difference unprofitably.Wal-mart is accused of that in almost every city in the USA when they build/open a new store. Come in. Lower prices on decent items, tun the mom/pop stores out of business, then progressively get cheaper and thinner profucts at an ever increasing cost. They did it again and again. People complain. Law suits fly but everyywas sneaking in and out of the store in odd hours
To be clear, afaik, walmart has only been occasionally accused of this behavior and it may simply be persons envious of Walmarts success-Torch. I
9 billion deficit in 2024.
And Amazon contributed approximately 7.5 % to the USPO bottom line in 2025. 6 billion dollars
If your not going to profit your not going to have anyone to employ
Why do people get up and go to work?
Do you think private companies would issue better currency?
It worked for a long time before it was intentionally changed to produce a deficit, for the sake of arguing for privatization.
you don’t have to profit to pay wages, profit exists after wages.
Versus being only able to list your product on a single marketplace that is unaccountable to the people? (the idea of capitalism correcting for it in the free market assumes there’s not a monopoly)
Maybe not not their job too anyway, just pointing out that gov monetary policy is not a success which you claimed it was.
Well it’s take a long time to break them. It’s been they have met budget once in the last 26 years
That is correct. But you do have to show profitability in order to get operating loans or loans for capital expenditures.
Agreed monopolies should be confronted, that is a capitalist economies fundamental principle. One which we don’t enforce.
I’m not disputing we should have a national post office.
I wasn’t saying it was some massive success, just that currency is one of the ways governments facilitate markets.
Non profits get loans all the time.
Which is why publicly owned infrastructure that doesn’t require share-based investment can produce some benefits. Some downfalls yes but that’s why that infrastructure shouldn’t have a monopoly either.
Pre paying those types of pensions has an effect, but it’s not like the government is unable to use stock market retirement plans.
No other agency is required to pre pay 75 years of health benefits. That bill was a deliberate sabotage of the postal service.
And it existed publicly for centuries. The post office has existed nearly as long as this country. And its service especially in rural areas and areas where it’s unprofitable to serve has declined because of that privatization (and other measures such as the incompetent post master)
