Is Wal-Mart good for America?
By: a Frontline co-production with Hedrick Smith Productions, Inc. ; senior producer, Hedrick Smith ; written by Hedrick Smith & Rick Young ; produced and directed by Rick Young ; WGBH
Contributors: Hedrick Smith Productions; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); PBS Video
Series: MGT 409C (NU course); SOC 100 (NU course)
Publisher: PBS Video
Published: 2005
Place of publication: S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Discount houses (Retail trade); Wal-Mart (Firm)
Other titles: Is Walmart good for America; Frontline (Television program)
Description: Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S.
Notes: Originally broadcast on Nov. 16, 2004 as a segment of: Frontline.

This film is presented in "widescreen" format. The black bars on the top and bottom of the screen are normal. Enhanced for 16 x 9 televisions.

Editor, Carol Slatkin; camera, David Smith, Mitchell Farkas; music, Eric Kaye.

Correspondent: Hedrick Smith.

DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Wal-Mart's revolutionary power; title: Muscling manufacturers; title: The strategy: go low and go global; title: China's view of Wal-Mart - big partner; title: Taking the hits.