walmartingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Walmarting (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. 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.