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farhanasultana.com • 37 days ago

Walmartization has been taught for over two decades in many courses in geography. Guess we are the lefty academic discipline who are neither economically illiterate nor socially clueless.

Reposted from Chris Hayes

If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

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earthfutures.bsky.social•36 days ago

Amen to that. It's so elementary to political economy as to almost not be worth pointing out.

clayr1916.bsky.social•37 days ago

📌#pin

farhanasultana.com•37 days ago

If you thought Walmartization was bad, wait till you hear about McDonaldization of the world. Now that as a phenomenon has been taught since the 1980s.

singleaspect.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yes and no. At least McD's is choice where to eat whereas I'm prepared to guess that in some areas Walmart (or was) the only grocery store leaving no where-else to go, and when they leave they cause devastation too having closed all the former local independent shops.

esgarchitect.bsky.social•37 days ago

So n summary, ensh*tification before big tech made it a thing?

ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yes indeed - I have (he said, showing his age)! 🤣

organizer.bsky.social•36 days ago

literally learned this in business school

michaellondonsf.bsky.social•37 days ago

This article started a flood of responses from N America. Same forces at work here in Europe, I think. In UK the obsession with 'productivity' reinforces the dominance of big capital over small.

mcope.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yup, I learned about this in grad school at CU-Boulder at the Political Geography Specialty Group pre-conference in the early 1990s from the late, beloved Fred Shelly.

ullumma.bsky.social•36 days ago

Neoliberalism is gaslighting.

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