The problem is major corporations with 1000's of employees can offer such low prices for products and services that smaller businesses can no longer break into the market with out some sort of advantage that allows them to compete with the numbers. Unfortunately that means a lot of small businesses are taking advantage of the labor force to cut costs. In some cases having 50 to 250 employees can still be considered a small business.
It is the capitalist end game right, we end up with one resteraunt, one retailer, one of everything, anti monopoly laws do not work because no one can afford to compete. Amazon and Walmart may as well be the same company. You think Jeff Bezos even cares if Walmart took 5% of the market that week. You think the Walmart family even listens to the numbers any mora at all?
It is getting worse too. I am seeing Auto repair shops, car dealers, and body shops all being bought up by a single company. This means that company will be able to lower the cost of auto repair labor charges all around me, and suddenly no one wants to pay $150+ to have their car fixed when all the big o les scwab brake plus do it for less, so those great paying jobs I provide disappear.
The fix is simple, and we could all do it together. Stop shopping at any location that employees more people then would fit in the building. No more walmart, amazon, Mac donalds ect. Drive an hour out of town to find that privately owned grocery market/hardware store. Offer to pay more. But we all know we are going to keep right on supporting these companies in one hand while bitching about the effects they have on our wages in the other.