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100 1 $aFishman, Charles,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005078110
245 14 $aThe Wal-Mart effect :$bhow the world's most powerful company really works-- and how it's transforming the American economy /$cCharles Fishman.
246 1 $aWalmart effect
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2006.
300 $a294 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.
520 1 $a"Charles Fishman has penetrated Wal-Mart's wall of secrecy, gaining the first in-depth and truly revealing access to a host of former Wal-Mart executives as well as managers at leading brand companies that sell to Wal-Mart, and digging up the untold story of "the Wal-Mart effect." In this investigation, he takes us on a behind-the-scenes expedition deep inside the many worlds of Wal-Mart and uncovers the hidden nature, and remarkable extent, of the company's power." "The Wal-Mart Effect reveals the array of ways in which the company is reshaping the terms of business; the economies of our communities; the lives of factory workers, both in the United States and around the world; and even the entire U.S. economy. Taking us inside the Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters, onto the factory floors, and into the stores themselves in a way we've never shopped them before, Fishman has discovered how Wal-Mart brings prices down so dramatically and what the remarkable payoffs and high costs of those "everyday low prices" really are." "Is the company a good thing or a bad thing? Fishman shows that this question doesn't even begin to address what we need to know about Wal-Mart. Not only is Wal-Mart the most powerful company in the world, he says, but it has become so powerful that it reaches into executive suites and onto factory floors and sets the terms for the ways companies do their business, exacting enormous efficiencies but also shifting costs onto suppliers and forcing some to the brink of bankruptcy, and some beyond. The number-one employer in thirty-seven of the fifty states, Wal-Mart claims that it is a leading creator of new jobs, but Fishman's analysis shows that, in fact, most of the company's "new" jobs come at the expense of jobs at other retailers. So profound is this effect on local businesses when Wal-Mart moves into town that one study has shown that the company may actually cause poverty. And yet the best estimates indicate that Wal-Mart saved American consumers $30 billion in 2004, and expert analysis has shown that the company has significantly lowered the rate of inflation in the United States. No company is more reviled, and yet no company is also so revered."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aWal-Mart (Firm)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90648829
650 0 $aDiscount houses (Retail trade)$zUnited States$xManagement.
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