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Are superstores super? In Saint Louis, Missouri, not many stores beat the grip that Walmart has on the city. Standing strong with twelve locations in the city/county, Walmart outperforms the other competing superstores in Saint Louis such as Costco and Sam’s Club. At a first glance, the convenience Walmart brings to most people provides an easy atmosphere, but are the incentives of jobs and cheap prices worth the sacrifice of local business and community hubs? Although Walmart displays less prevalence in the city of Saint Louis, Saint Louis harbors a multitude of Walmarts. Further investigating Walmart’s activities and presence in Saint Louis, there appears to be many double edge swords regarding whether the store has a positive or negative

Not only that, another seventy five thousand supplier jobs are supported via Walmarts presence in Missouri. Using a three to twenty eight ratio, which derives from Saint Louis to Missouri wide locations, Walmart employs about four thousand five hundred people in Saint Louis. As of 2017, Walmart did not make the top twenty employers, but the four thousand workers combined with the chain effect of suppliers combined to impact a large number of employed Saint Louisans. However, the list Saint Louis Magazine provides includes many prospective job pools such as Boeing, BJC, Enterprise, along with a mix of schools, military, local government and other retailers. Walmart workers working in-store may not have the education or opportunity to work high level jobs, but still need a stable source of income, like all humans do. The network of employees Walmart creates makes a powerful argument that Walmart makes a positive impact on Saint Louis solely by giving job opportunities to those who are in need. Other local employers can not compete with Walmart's wages along with the numbers Walmart

From a PDF provided by the progressive group Americans for Tax Fairness, MSNBC found that Walmart saves seven point eight billion dollars from subsidization and tax cuts along with hundreds of millions of dollars from cities eager to host Walmart. While Walmart saves billions of dollars, the company wide minimum wage is fourteen dollars an hour. Saint Louis’s wage starts at seventeen dollars an hour as posted by their hiring ads and Walmart seems to be trending towards seventeen dollars an hour. Neither fourteen or seventeen dollars an hour can comfortably sustain anybody living independently in the current period of rising costs. Walmart manages to escape billions in taxes but employees are left to fend for themselves with a report that “‘Many Walmart workers like me can’t cover the rent or feed our families without public assistance because of Walmart’s low