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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

Charles Fishman

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Summary

Fishman investigates how Walmart’s pursuit of low prices affects customers, employees, suppliers and the wider economy. He examines the company’s scale and the pressures its purchasing power places on other businesses. The book also considers Sam Walton’s legacy within a company that continued to grow after his death.

  • SourceThe Wal-Mart Effect — Penguin Books · Paperback; December 26, 2006; ISBN 9780143038788; Book Description considers customers, suppliers, workers and wider economic effects
  • SourceThe Wal-Mart Effect — licensed Penguin original contents · 2006 original; contents, Chapter 2 Sam Walton’s Ten Pound Bass, printed page 23

Why read it Our view

Useful for examining what a low-price promise requires from the whole chain that serves the customer. Consider the benefits to shoppers alongside the pressures on workers, suppliers and other businesses. Fishman’s investigation gives a founder questions about the wider effects of scale and purchasing power.

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  • Sam WaltonCompany history
    Fishman examines the company Walton built and its wider economic effects. A chapter discusses Walton and his legacy; the book’s main subject is Walmart as a business and institution.
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