Funny enough, last I knew Wal Mart owned a pretty good chunk of K Mart just so that they wouldn't completely fail. If Wal Mart owns only 49 % of the competition, technically they don't own it. Meaning there's no monopoly and they get to make a profit off of keeping the competition open. How f*cked up is that?

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