> Walmart has a history of building stores in areas where local stores already exist, letting them bleed money while they outcompete everyone with their lower prices, dominating the local area and driving other stores out of business.
So it's not a monopoly at all, they just offer things at cheaper prices and drive more expensive businesses out of business, while many reasonably efficient competitors still exist.
Walmart leverages their dominance over the supply chain and their position as a huge chain with locations all over the country, to outcompete local competitors who do not have the same benefits to draw upon.
As a consequence of this, local businesses die, jobs are lost and people either have to move away or accept Walmart jobs with well-documented bad pay and bad working conditions.
All of this is a deliberate business strategy by Walmart, because the US political climate and "business-friendly" ideology from both major parties prioritizes giant corporations with enormous lobbying power, over small business owners.
As a further local effect, business life is driven from the city centers to outside the cities, causing fewer people from the suburbs to go into the city centers, leading to urban neglect and decay.
That's competition. Monopoly is when you don't have real competitors. And yet somehow they compete vs. Amazon, Target and a thousand other stores.
They don't have control over the supply of any particular good, it's not like an ISP where they have covenants with local governments that limit competition, they're not Standard Oil. They're not even at the level of Microsoft, because there's not much they can do to exclude competition.
But I guess some people have tried this tact, before. Here's an article which discusses many of the points you've made and explains why they don't make sense:
Walmart quickly becomes a local monopoly, because they dominate over the local competitors who cannot leverage the same economies of scale to lower distributor prices nor afford to bleed money in one area in order to take over the local market.
Honestly it seems you either refuse to read what I wrote, or you are invested in a free market ideology. The link you posted is nothing more than a hard-libertarian free market fanatic opinion blog, heavy on snark and lacking in value.
Read about the damage Walmart does to communities and why even their mere presence in the market completely distorts it:
So it's not a monopoly at all, they just offer things at cheaper prices and drive more expensive businesses out of business, while many reasonably efficient competitors still exist.