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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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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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Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data--including facts such as this: Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores--this text is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping the American economy.
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About the Author

Charles Fishman has been a senior editor at the Orlando Sentinel and the News and Observer and is now a senior editor at Fast Company. In 2005 he won the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism.

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Table of Contents

The Wal-Mart Effect One. Who Knew Shopping Was So Important?

Two. Sam Walton's Ten-Pound Bass

Three. Makin Bacon, A Wal-Mart Fairy Tale

Four. The Squeeze

Five. The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart

Six. What Do We Actually Know About Wal-Mart?

Seven. Salmon, Shirts, and the Meaning of Low Prices

Eight. The Power of Pennies

Nine. Wal-Mart and the Decent Society

Epilogue. Peoria, September 2005

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Source Notes

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780143038788
Author:
Fishman, Charles
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
Management
Subject:
Discount houses (retail trade)
Subject:
Corporate & Business History - General
Subject:
Economic History
Subject:
Wal-Mart (Firm)
Subject:
Business-History and Biography
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Publication Date:
20070131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
8.39x5.56x.72 in. .68 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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