Supermarket vs magazin de cartier

O analiza simpatica a beneficiilor supermarket-urilor fata de magazinele mici, publicata in Financial Times.

Jason Furman, then an economist at New York University, now an adviser to President Obama, famously argued in 2005 that Walmart was (unwittingly) a progressive success story. [...] Furman reckoned that they benefited low- and middle-income Americans to the tune of around $250bn a year.

Walmart does not pay much, so it may depress wages. Then again, it may boost wages by offering jobs to the otherwise-unemployed. Either way, the benefits of low prices to Walmart shoppers far outweigh any plausible costs to Walmart employees. And while it is true that Walmart employees tend to be poor, the same is true of Walmart shoppers.

In RO, zoso facea mai demult o comparatie asemanatoare, din prisma consumatorului.