The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And Howit's Transforming the American Economy
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...
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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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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101218105 (110121810X)
Publish date: January 19th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Reference,
Business,
Economics,
Journalism,
Politics,
Sociology,
Social Science,
Research
This was a book I read years ago, and re-read just now. It wasn't on my TBR list, but I was looking for a new book, stumbled upon this one, and ran right through it. It's one of those books that you can read over and over again, and catch new things you didn't see the first time. New things stuck ou...
12 years ago
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