Walmart’s cultural politics here are revealing. It profits by offering (ostensibly for “free”) a set of services emulating or simulating the forms of community, family and morality, which, while they may never have existed (at least in such an idealized form), relied on a post-war socio-economic order that Walmart, in various ways, helped eradicate.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 300