I argue that Walmart succeeds, in part, to the extent that it cultivates a cultural politics of securitization and offers to its consumer-subjects the spectacle of security and peace in a world of economic, political and social chaos. In this sense, Walmart is not only an instance of a cultural moment of “securitization”; it also actively conscripts subjects and produces understandings and meanings germane to that idiom.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 251