Brianna Bastarache Block Green 4 Big Box Stores What makes the big-box stores so special? Is it the low prices, the immense amount of goods, or the easily accessible storefronts that are located all over the United States? These types of stores have one major goal: to be the franchise that consumers choose to purchase items. There's been controversy over these types of stores for decades, saying that each store has an upside as well as a downside. The bottomline is if you want a cheap product, you choose to shop at Walmart or another big box store. After analyzing the facts, the choices surrounding if these big-box stores are really vital to the success of America, or if these stores negatively impact our society. A popular topic surrounding Walmart is how the immense amount of box stores are connected to China and how they have impacted the U.S. The total U.S. goods that were traded with China reached $324.2 billion in …show more content…
Treasury bills, other government securities, and private foreign assets to make the value of the dollar rise. This therefore creates lower costs of its exports to the United States. Because of these low costs of exports, big box stores like Walmart can continue to sell low cost products for cheap prices, as well as make a form of profit. The Panam Press summed the idea up by saying, “currency manipulation transfers wealth from the citizens of countries that practice it, to the citizens of countries fortunate enough to buy the manipulators’ subsidized exports.” China uses its resources of inexpensive labor, capital and resources to produce products like clothing and appliances, and decides to send $250 billions of dollars worth of these products to U.S. consumers for nearly free every year as a form of courtesy to American society and because its been done for so long it's expected at this