Wal-Mart And The End Of America's Middle Class
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?"
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
Published on Sunday, December 14, 2003 in
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