num_pages: 352
description: "Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." — San Francisco Chronicle"Insightful." — BusinessWeekWal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.
language: English
title: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
titlecomplete: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
genres: Audiobook, Politics, School, Economics, Management, Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, History, Sociology
ratings_count: 3722
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Financial Times Business Book of the Year
category: Shortlist
publisher: Penguin Books