The Wal-Mart Effect
#2: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really
Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
I'll be honest, I did not expect to like this book. I thought it would be very dry and I honestly expected it to be mostly an attack on Wal-Mart (which I'm personally getting sick of - employee or no, I'm tired of hearing all of the negativity about Wal-Mart, especially when most of the complaints I hear are things that are related to problems at the store level, not anything that the powers that be in Bentonville are doing or not doing).
Instead, it was an interesting description of how Wal-Mart came to be, and how it is able to do the things it does. The book also discussed the fact that everyone is affected by Wal-Mart, even those people who never shop there.
I'll be honest, I did not expect to like this book. I thought it would be very dry and I honestly expected it to be mostly an attack on Wal-Mart (which I'm personally getting sick of - employee or no, I'm tired of hearing all of the negativity about Wal-Mart, especially when most of the complaints I hear are things that are related to problems at the store level, not anything that the powers that be in Bentonville are doing or not doing).
Instead, it was an interesting description of how Wal-Mart came to be, and how it is able to do the things it does. The book also discussed the fact that everyone is affected by Wal-Mart, even those people who never shop there.
