Walmart is notorious overexpander. They flood the market with too many stores. Walmart closing stores will allow other companies to come in a fill the void. IMO the US is primed for success as soon as the politicians get out of the way. They've been purposely applying breaks to the economy the last 6 years. There is IMMENSE financial potential here. Don't believe the hype.

They've been purposely applying breaks to the economy the last 6 years. There is IMMENSE financial potential here. Don't believe the hype.

Well, such idealist position can be partially true in some absolute personal dictatorship and upon shorter range of time and smaller scope.

In capitalists fake democracy you have capital who dictates (this is called bourgeoisie dictatorship in science) politics. So, your statement is same as blaming horses for actions of coachman.

More complete list

• Wal-Mart is closing 269 stores, including 154 inside the United States.
• K-Mart is closing down more than two dozen stores over the next several months.
• J.C. Penney will be permanently shutting down 47 more stores after closing a total of 40 stores in 2015.
• Macy’s has decided that it needs to shutter 36 stores and lay off approximately 2,500 employees.
• The Gap is in the process of closing 175 stores in North America.
• Aeropostale is in the process of closing 84 stores all across America.
• Finish Line has announced that 150 stores will be shutting down over the next few years.
• Sears has shut down about 600 stores over the past year or so, but sales at the stores that remain open continue to fall precipitously.

Going down still

• Macy’s will be closing about 100 stores.
• Another 150 Sears and Kmart stores are shutting down
• The Limited is immediately closing all stores nationwide.
• Sports Authority closed all 460 location, out of business
• PacSun, Aeropostale and American Apparel filed for bancrupcy

102 of the 154 Walmart stores closing were the mini-Walmart Express outlets. Smaller stores, less product selection, higher prices. What could go wrong?! Target also opened mini-Targets, like the one in Chicago's Streeterville area near Magnificent Mile. Same problem. Limited selection, higher prices. Usually you waste your time looking for what you want, then end up going to a bigger Target to get it!

http://time.com/money/4182681/walmarts-express-stores-close/

https://consumerist.com/2016/10/04/target-rethinking-everything-for-new-mini-stores-aimed-at-millennials/

Universal income.

Universal income ideas are universal indicator of capitalism issues :-) Won't work.

Why won't it work? What's the alternative then? Starvation? Please elaborate

Change of social organization. :-)

Universal income ideas in one picture

Universal income could just provide a baseline of support. So people can eat and get shelter. They can still open companies or invent magic beans and become rich.

Universal income sole purpose is to do something with lot of people capitalists do not need but can't kill. Universal income idea is not made and proposed by suffering people, but by ruling class. It is just an idea for now, as I put the picture - carrot before your nose, so people can dream that their problems can be solved with such approach. Such approach also reflects dream of ruling class to turn people they do not need into badly educated and drug addicted mass without any interest besides food and sex, something that is safe for them. Why this thing won't work? Simple. Capitalists do things only in two cases - if it brings them profits or if they are afraid too much to lose everything. It won't bring profits, so only second case remains. For now they are quite calm, they see troubled future, but calm for now. Hence mostly media massaging of your brains to induce some hormones. In case of trouble this measure won't solve anything - it is intended only time of fast and progressive development, times of small number of people who will use it, and it won't be the case.

The scary thing is these capitalist types are celebritized. People worship Trump and are literally equating him to Jesus. It doesn't matter how stupid or uninformed or ugly a person is, if you have tons of money, many people are willing to genuflect on that basis alone. Puzzling.

I like that, "Change in an instant".

Good article you need to check

40 years ago, Bob Khoury and Warren Steinberg started selling used photo equipment out of a showcase in an Atlanta, Georgia, flea market. Soon they moved to a brick and mortar store which, to incorporate their earlier experience, they called Showcase. The store grew to be the largest in Atlanta and sold photo and video equipment to amateurs and professionals alike and last year they celebrated their 40th anniversary.

Showcase’s demographic was aging, better cameras on smartphones were eating into the digital camera market, less customers were coming into the shop and even those that came were often showrooming. The word “showrooming” gets underlined in red by my Microsoft Word spellcheck, so I go to Merriam-Webster but it is not there either. However, showrooming has become a legitimate word in the last few years and Wikipedia defines it as the practice of examining merchandise in a traditional brick and mortar retail store and then buying it online, sometimes at a lower price. Here they were not just examining the merchandise but getting the input and advice of the experienced staff to figure out which model was the most suited for them, holding it in their hand, picking on their knowledge, using their time… and then buying online.

And it is interesting illustration on how capitalism kills environment by not being unable to go for common good.

“One of the main reasons — and I in no way want to come across as a victim — is the manufacturers, and I lay a lot about it on the manufacturers, who have been cutting my margins for years and fixing Minimum Advertised Pricing to the point where it’s very difficult to make any money in this business,” says Khoury. “My margins have fallen 5% over the past eight years. To give you an idea, the minimum advertised price on Canon lenses is 5%; we make 5% on Canon lenses. Others are 10%, but even that’s not enough to sustain the business.”

“The margins have been cut so low on our major products and then the manufacturer say, well the reason you know we’re doing this is that it drives business to your store. Fine, but if somebody comes in and buys a lens that I make 5% on and if they pay me with an American Express card I have to give American Express over 3% of that. Where are my margins? I have no margins.”

And this is how big business and monopolies literally squeeze out every dollar from small guys and later they throw out them in the dump. This is how capitalism laws work.

https://petapixel.com/2017/03/02/another-big-camera-store-fails-many-closing/

We can't afford to stay in business with our customers treating us like this.

Unfortunately that you see is normal, it is how system works And it works such in more and more degree as big capitalists no longer have such big fear that set some limits in the past.

Absolutely same happens in retail where huge chains can pay 120 days after getting product, they also lot of other payments and have horrible terms where they can fine you under almost any pretext.