Citations:Walmart

English citations of Walmart

Proper noun

• 2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio

  One person said it was as much as a mile wide. Another told NPR that it was, quote, “bigger than a Walmart”, unquote, that being the standard unit of size in West Texas.

• 2010, Brian Thornton, The Book of Bastards: 101 Worst Scoundrels and Scandals from the World of Politics and Power, page 161:

  But Rockefeller was indeed the WalMart of his day. He bought out the oil production interests of his railroad competitors and forced them to sign contracts charging him far below the actual cost of carrying

• 2015, Timothy Benson, King of the Trailer Park‎^[1], page 26:

  The term “trailer park” had become a regular part of our office lexicon. […] We also used the terms “Walmarter,” “Cletus” and “Jethro” when we talked about an ever increasing number of people we were trying to reach. I constantly wrestled with the thought that we were being condescending or insulting to people we didn’t even know.

Verb

• 2008 October 8, Stanley Heller "Time to Design a New Economy", Counterpunch.org [2]

  Who shops on Main St.? Main St. was Wallmarted out of existence years ago.

• 2012, Al Smith, Kentucky Cured: Fifty Years in Kentucky Journalism, page 34:

  Four years later, with the WalMarting of small towns like those in which we published newspapers, I gave in and joined the sellout on Main Street of banks, real estate firms, hospitals, car dealers and media companies. Our company sold our papers to Park Communications of Ithaca, New York.

• 2017, John O'Kane, A People's Manifesto, page 24:

  [Becoming an entrepreneur is] a vision endorsed by some of the Founding Fathers who believed that the success of the ordinary person was integrally linked to small business ventures. How liberating might this notion be today if the playing field weren’t Walmarted with too-big-to-fail megacorporations and oligopolies.

• 2019, Michael R. Matthews, Feng Shui: Teaching about Science and Pseudoscience, page 285:

  Apart from numerous books, the Robert Greenwald documentary The High Cost of Low Price (2005) well captures the Walmarted experience of the USA.