"Company towns" sets off all sorts of alarm bells and rants. But the reality is that, in a lot of smaller cities, there pretty much are one or maybe two dominant employers and everything else exists primarily in service of people working for those employers.
As in the case of one person I know, if you live in Bentonville you're probably working for Walmart and if your position is eliminated and you can't get a new one, you're probably moving.
As in the case of one person I know, if you live in Bentonville you're probably working for Walmart and if your position is eliminated and you can't get a new one, you're probably moving.