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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


  


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

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 381
EAN: 9780143038788
ISBN: 0143038788
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Wal-Mart isnÂ’t just the worldÂ’s biggest company, it is probably the worldÂ’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.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Insightful, scary and impressive
Charles Fishman has managed to both intrigue and scare me with The Wall-Mart Effect. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in the economy, corporate growth models, supply chain management, manufacturing or sales. Even those with no interest in any of those topics should read the book, just to understand why you SHOULD be interested in this company.

Not being focused on traditional retail or physical product manufacturing in my daily life, the book was still able to get my ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Must read
Really enlighting. I don't go there anymore. (didn't go very much before) .Maybe I'm narrow minded



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Walmart shaping life everywhere.
A well written book exploring the biggest retailer in the world and how the 'WalMart effect' shapes lifes everywhere. A lot of research has gone into this book and Mr. Fishman asks, how did a shop manage to get the power to change our world. Looking at it from a business perspective one cannot help but be in awe of the strategies put in place by the Waltons and their associates. Their commitment to "Always Low Prices, Always' is not in any means half-hearted. It will be interesting to explore the new ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Walmart Effect
This book is a good study on what makes Wal-Mart a business success but a real detriment to our ecomony. The ethics of this corporation are so poor that our environment and society will only suffer as long as we support them. This books states true examples of how cheaper doesn't equal better.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Very informative
Fishman was able to present the Walmart "phenomenon" in a very straightforward way. The global effect of Walmart was explained through many real-life examples; the flow of the book, I have to say, is excellent. I finished it in 3 days. Walmart effect on supply chain efficiency is an area that the book overlooked compared to some other topics that were redundant.




 



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