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Wal-Mart And The End Of America's Middle Class

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
19 December 2003 - 8:00am

Neal Peirce discusses the impact of Wal-Mart on the American society.

"Wal-Mart is at once smart, crafty, frugal and fearsomely efficient...Wal-Mart's niche is rooted in the Achilles' heel of American thrift: our notion that a good bargain is a pleasure of which we ought never deprive ourselves. Yet at what price?"

Full Story: Wal-Mart: Enduring Bargain Or Sunset Of Our Middle Class?
Source: The Washington Post Writers Group, December 14, 2003
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