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

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


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"Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." —San Francisco Chronicle "Insightful." —BusinessWeek 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.

Table of Contents:
The Wal-Mart EffectOne. 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

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

Review :
"The best Wal-Mart expose yet . . . as measured by depth and breadth of research, writing style, and evenhanded treatment." —The Denver Post "Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." —San Francisco Chronicle "The Wal-Mart Effect is an interesting look at how big corporations affect our planet in positive and negative ways. The strength . . . is in the stories about the lives that Wal-Mart has touched, set against the backdrop of an astounding array of data." —USA Today "Insightful." —BusinessWeek "The Wal-Mart Effect saunters through the influential economic ‘ecosystem’ that the discount chain represents with clarity, compelling nuance, and refreshing objectivity." —The Christian Science Monitor "A must-read if one is even to begin understanding the global dominance of Wal-Mart." —The Washington Post


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780143038788
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin USA
  • Height: 213 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0143038788
  • Publisher Date: 26 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 306 gr


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