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Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest company--it is the largest company in the history of the world. It is estimated that the company's low prices save American consumers $10 billion a year--but the #1 employer in 37 states has never let a union in the door. Though 70% of Americans now live within a 15-minute drive of a Wal-Mart, we have not even begun to understand the true power of the company. We know about the lawsuits and the labour protests,...
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19uu
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Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S.
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2009
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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time-the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic instability in an increasingly unsettled world.Low price is so...
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Tales from Grace Chapel Inn volume 24
Pub. Date
c2005
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It's the beginning of summer, and Acorn Hill is heating up. Alice is planning a trip to the big city with the group of teen girls she mentors, but she needs to find someone to help chaperone or she may have to cancel the trip. Willing volunteers are few and far between, but Alice locates an unlikely helper who may learn just as much from the experience as the girls themselves. Meanwhile, Aunt Ethel is busy revamping her home for a visit from her daughter...
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©2004
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Frontline explores the retail giant's influence on the American economy, noting U.S. job losses and soaring Chinese exports. Interviews with retail execs, trade experts, economists and more, some who credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is driving the overseas shift to China of the production of American consumer goods.