The Wal-Mart Effect

Is Wal-Mart the goliath that is reshaping America?

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January 17, 2006, 11:00 AM PST

"The world's largest firm by sales (although it will yield the title to ExxonMobil this year, owing to oil prices), Wal-Mart invites debate like no other company. The No. 1 employer in perhaps 24 states, it is a steamroller of mom-and-pop shops, a union-defying exploiter of the "associates" it treats as serfs. Or, it is a shrewd, hardball-playing handler of its suppliers, a bargain-stacked bazaar for the hard-pressed. It all depends on whom you ask."

FULL STORY: The goliath that reshaped America

Monday, January 16, 2006 in The Christian Science Monitor

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