How would you write a research paper about Walmart's affect on local small businesses and treatment of its employees concerning wages, benefits, and the like?

When writing a research paper, it's important to find sources you can trust such as scholarly journals, news and news magazines, books, and respected encyclopedias. In the case of a study on Walmart, business newspapers and magazines, as well as books, are likely to be your best choices to build a works cited list and provide reputable citations.
Walmart has a bad reputation for the effect it has on local economies as well as the way it treats employees. Stories from small towns across the country have cropped up in recent years covering this topic. A Walmart store will open up in town, causing smaller, mom-and-pop shops to close, and then they themselves will pack up and leave town. The community is left without a grocery store or pharmacy, and the hundreds of people employed at the store are left without jobs. Since Walmart pays its employees an estimated $3 less per hour than other stores, the new jobs that it brings to a community are not worth the pain the stores create.
Walmart's corporate website paints a picture of a plan to increase wages, invest in education and training, and continue to promote from within. One way to approach a research paper on this topic might be to compare the way that Walmart advertises their policies versus what the news reports real employees think and feel.
https://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/small-towns-devastated-after-wal-mart-stores-inc-decimates-mom-and-pop-shops-then-packs-up-and-leaves-they-ruined-our-lives

https://money.com/walmart-stores-closing-small-towns/

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2405-real-cost-walmart.html