There was once a small, quaint town called Americana (let's say). It had a main street filled with shops, theaters, and busy citizens all going about their business. At the outskirts of this town, there was a large military base. The people who were stationed there came into the little town and bought stuff. In this way, the town supported itself. Houses were built, schools, libraries. People were happy. Children were healthy and maybe not above average, but at least average. Some were above average. There was also agriculture and there were farmers. It was a pleasant place to live.

Then one day a WalMart superstore parked its fat ass between the military base and the town. At first, no one thought anything of it. Cheap stuff! The people in the town sometimes went there. Eventually, they realized that WalMart was a cheaper place to buy their groceries than Pleasant Corners, run by the nice Jones family, who'd run it for 100 years. Sometimes the people could save $20 on a shopping trip! Well, who doesn't like to economize? Also, when they went to WalMart, they could get their prescriptions filled while they shopped, and they could buy clothes, etc. No need to spend more money in town.

Meanwhile, in town, the businesses that were once there began to lose so much business they had to close. Luckily there were two young men covered in tattoos who could buy up their inventory for pennies on the dollar. And because so many stores had shuttered down, they could park all of their new cheap inventory in what was once the towns largest department store! It also helped that for the time being, their Dad owned the building. He was in foreclosure but for now they could stay there.

Eventually, all of the stores in this town went bankrupt. They could not compete with the behemoth WalMart, a place that could sell some items at a loss long enough to destroy.

Now the town has no businesses aside from those that sell inventory on the Internet. There is no there there. There is WalMart.

But WalMart noticed some enterprising young people who were taking advantage of its loss leaders by buying up that inventory and selling it for 3X the cost. WalMart didn't like that! It started noticing those people and kicking them out of the store. So now even those people who adapted to WalMart's being there were being forced out.