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The Wal-Mart Effect

How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy

By Charles Fishman

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| Paperback | 9780143038788

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Wal-Mart isn't just the world's biggest company, it is probably the world's most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented intContinue

Wal-Mart isn't just the world's biggest company, it is probably the world's most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.

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  • The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy

    Review-a-Day Saturday, February 11th, 2006 The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman Really Bigger Than Texas A review by Gerry Donaghy To help put the ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • The Price of Pickles

    The moment of revelation is a little different for every person who experiences it. For Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the road to Damascus came in the form of a pair of knickers. At the time – 1945 – Walton was in his late twenties, and was runnin ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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  • Danger: Falling Prices

    THE GOOD: An insightful look at the effect, for good and bad, of Wal-Mart's focus on price-cutting. THE BAD: Did author Fishman get Wal-Mart's side? Not personally. Company quotes are all from outside sources. THE BOTTOM LINE: A successful look at how Wal-Mart works and how it is transforming the U. ... (continue)

    THE GOOD: An insightful look at the effect, for good and bad, of Wal-Mart's focus on price-cutting. THE BAD: Did author Fishman get Wal-Mart's side? Not personally. Company quotes are all from outside sources. THE BOTTOM LINE: A successful look at how Wal-Mart works and how it is transforming the U.S. economy.

    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_05/b396…

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