Walmarting

Noun

Walmarting (uncountable)

1. The process of coming to resemble a chain-superstore business model.
   • We hear from all over that it's the WalMarting of agriculture, and it's inevitable, that we don't have any choices.2003, Carolyn Johnsen, Raising a Stink: The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska, page 79
   • He contrasts the WalMarting of the economy with the high road he says employers such as Costco have followed.2008, New Labor Forum - Volume 17, page 128

   Synonyms:

   Walmartization

2. The process of becoming dominated by chain superstores such as Walmart.
   • It is equally captured in the Walmarting of hundreds of towns where whole downtown business and residential communities have been destroyed2019, Michael R. Matthews, Feng Shui: Teaching About Science and Pseudoscience, page 285
   • 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.2013, Berndt Ostendorf, New Orleans: Creolization and all that Jazz

   Synonyms:

   Walmartization