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== Film ==

* Mondo Burger from the old Nicktoons movie ''[[Good Burger]]''.

* ''Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices'', a [[Documentary]] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|that]] attempts to prove that Walmart is this trope.

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''[[Barry Trotter]]'' parody series, the Voldemort stand-in Lord Valumart fits this trope by selling magical goods to the Muddle world.

 

* In ''Lottery!'', a small mom and pop grocery store finds itself facing a major supermarket opening up across the street. They refuse to be bought out and they are about to be crushed, but the Intersweep Lottery rep comes to tell them they won over a million dollars. Armed with this sudden windfall, the family decides to fight fire with fire with the supermarket and enters a competition war is so fierce that the supermarket chain's owner investigates and he turns about to a friend of the small store family and a compromise is reached.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

'''Andy:''' Because it's on the route Peter takes to come home.

'''Roger:''' I wondered why his teeth were chattering all the way through dinner. }}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* Triple-AAA corporations in ''[[Shadowrun]]''

* In ''[[Mutant Chronicles]]'' just about every megacorp plans on doing what ever it takes to gain more grounds against the other megacorps. Their also not afraid to go on all out war with each other.

 

== Video Games ==

* If your income drops too low in [[SimCity]] 3000, you may be propositioned to build a Gigamall in your city. By doing so, you'll earn a steady income which can keep you in the black, but like all the business deal buildings, [[Deal with the Devil|there's a catch]]: The Gigamall torpedoes the development of your own commercial sector.

* In ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'', there's a company called Avenir, a technology factory who owns a majority of the business on Lastation, and has used its influence to crush its competition and garner protection from Parliament, preventing Neptune and her friends from entering the Basilicom.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''Wondermark'' had a comic that subverted this where the one complaining about this trope pertaining to a bookstore was mostly peeved that the new store's security was not of the "old man in chair napping" model.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Wal Mart Watch actually has a [[YouTube]] parody called ''[[Harry Potter and The Dark Lord Waldemart]]''.

* The [[JibJab]] video [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226124642/http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart "Big Box Mart"].

 

== Western Animation ==

* Done twice in ''[[South Park]]''.

** Subverted in the episode for [[Bland-Name Product|Harbucks]] Coffee. Most of the episode involves a small coffee shop owner, Mr. Tweek, trying to keep Harbucks from imposing on his business, including forcing the four main characters to rally the town around him. Then it turns out that Harbucks actually does make better coffee than Tweek's when the townspeople finally get around to tasting it, and Mr. Tweek is even able to get a good job working there instead.

* ''[[6teen]]'' had Tajma-home-video, doing essentially this to smaller video stores.

* "Sprawl-Mart" is portrayed like this in the later episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Also, Ned Flanders has to compete against the left-handed giant "Left Mart".

* One of the [[Veggie Tales]] stories, based on ''Don Quixote'', had a little local restaurant that was very successful...until a giant corporate eatery, The Food Factory, moved in across the street.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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