[Hot Tabasco]

If Huge Store Chain moves in to a town and sells items there at a loss but subsidizes that particular store with profits from other locations UTIL local competitors are forced to close the end result is a monopoly.

The real end result is that the consumer will turn to the internet to purchase from out of state merchants which also circumvents state sales taxes.....

[Beagle8U]

“The real end result is that the consumer will turn to the internet to purchase from out of state merchants which also circumvents state sales taxes..... “

At some point a really smart state will lower sale taxes to zero to attract online retailers.