Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And Howit's Transforming the American Economy

Title: Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And Howit's Transforming the American Economy Author: Charles Fishman ISBN: 9781594200762 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Published: 2006 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: An award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal the many astonishing ways Wal-Mart's power affects our lives and reaches all around the world. The Wal-Mart Effect: The overwhelming impact of the world's largest company--due to its relentless pursuit of low prices--on retailers and manufacturers, wages and jobs, the culture of shopping, the shape of our communities, and the environment; a global force of unprecedented nature. Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest company; it is also the largest company in the history of the world. Americans spend $26 million "every hour" at Wal-Mart, twenty-four hours of every day, every day of the y