Walmart ( WMT ) has acted as a deflationary force in the U.S. economy for decades, using its massive scale and supply chain dominance — especially with low-cost Chinese manufacturing — to push prices down across retail. By demanding rock-bottom prices from suppliers and passing the savings on to consumers, it helped suppress inflation in categories across the board, from socks to shampoo. The effect was very real. In the 1990s and 2000s, economists often credited Walmart with shaving basis

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