Walmarting

English[edit]

Walmarting (uncountable)

the process of coming to resemble a chain-superstore business model
- 2003, Carolyn Johnsen, Raising a Stink: The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska, page 79:
  We hear from all over that it's the WalMarting of agriculture, and it's inevitable, that we don't have any choices.
- 2008, New Labor Forum - Volume 17, page 128:
  He contrasts the WalMarting of the economy with the high road he says employers such as Costco have followed.
the process of becoming dominated by chain superstores such as Walmart
- 2019, Michael R. Matthews, Feng Shui: Teaching About Science and Pseudoscience, page 285:
  It is equally captured in the Walmarting of hundreds of towns where whole downtown business and residential communities have been destroyed
- 2013, Berndt Ostendorf, New Orleans: Creolization and all that Jazz:
  Efforts should be made to rebuild their quarters and neighborhoods instead of letting real estate agents and developers open the doors to the tourist industry, to WalMarting and to Disneyfication.