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** Also subverted in a weird way. Generally [[Predatory Business|PredatoryBusinesses]] are criticized for selling cheap, crappy merchandise, but the Axiom and nearly everything on it are incredibly well-built.
*** According to [[Word of God]], the Wall-E units suffered some sort of massive production failure, leaving only one active, which is why Buy N Large decided to give up on cleaning up the Earth.
* ''[[Batteries Not Included (Filmfilm)|Batteries Not Included]]'' had a variation where a corp was trying to buy out the inhabitants of some tenement blocks so they could build a skyscraper in their place. The residents of one block resisted, and the corp started using dirtier and dirtier tactics to get rid of them.
* Mondo Burger from the old Nicktoons movie ''[[Good Burger]]''.
* ''Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices'', a [[Documentary]] [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|that]] attempts to prove that Walmart is this trope.
 
 
== Literature ==
* Early example: Ring's Come-one Come-all Up-to-date Stores from ''An International Affair'' by [[PG Wodehouse (Creator)|P. G. Wodehouse]]. Local, cosy "Ma and Pa" tea-shop depends on students of local boarding school. Along comes Evil Franchised Store, undercutting them something awful and fully intending to take advantage of the local yokels. Then some plucky students band together, have tea at the New Place, and secretly take something that makes them really sick, thus giving the New Place a reputation for food poisoning.
* Subverted in Emile Zola's ''Au Bonheur des Dames'', where the owner of the aggressively expanding corporation is the protagonist. It doesn't prevent Zola from pointing out (with impressive foresight) how such stores tend to drive their less competitive neighbours out of business.
** And the owner is a manipulative bastard who plays on humans baser instincts.
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* 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.
* One of the [[Fair Folk|True Fae]] in the [[Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Lost]] book ''Grim Fears'' is trying to take over the Earth by heading a megacorp of big box stores.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* Pizza Dinosaur from ''[[Wario Ware (Video Game)|Wario Ware]]''; their [[Ear Worm|corporate song]] even says the 'lower quality products but cheaper' part.
{{quote| We represent Pizza Dinosaur<br />
We've got the most stores in the world<br />
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* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', Junes is ''regarded'' as one, though it's more a parody of [[Mega Corp|Mega Corps]]. Its poor reputation (though people still shop there even while blaming it for driving small shops out of business, similar to people in Walmart in real life) has several long-reaching effects; the most obvious is on party member Yosuke, who happens to be the son of the manager.
* Pizza Bat in ''[[No More Heroes]] 2: Desperate Struggle'', which has hurt the local fast food places like Burger Suplex.
* ''[[Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator]]'' has this as "Bean There, Done that".
* If your income drops too low in [[Sim City]] 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 Withwith 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.
 
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* Superstore USA from ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* Red Rocket (a front for COBRA, of course) from the original ''[[G.I. Joe]]''.
** Cobra Industries in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' is ''made'' of this, although their pies ''are'' better than homemade. Their bagel-dogs aren't bad either.
* The monstromarket featured in the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' short "Supermarket Mania".
* "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 (Animation)|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.
 
 
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