How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America: And What You Can Do about It: Amazon.de: Bill Quinn: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 171 Seiten
Verlag: Ten Speed Press; Auflage: Rev. & Updated (1. Oktober 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1580082319
ISBN-13: 978-1580082310
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 12,7 x 1,5 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 979.810 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Wal-Mart and World Domination - a scary story to make super-markets shudder and concerned consumers cringe - The follow on book to How Wal-Mart is Destroying America - over 20,000 copies sold - Relates how Wal-Mart acquired Britain's third largest supermarket chain and brought Goliath to our doorstep - Tells the real truth about Wal-Mart's operating practices - Features 'fight back' strategies for individuals, sales people, and entire communities - An essential addition to every business and reference section ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Bill Quinn exposed Wal-Mart's infestation and destruction of small American towns, where local shops were forced to close, workers were laid off, and down towns turned into ghost towns. Dismantling the American dream, however, wasn't quite enough. Wal-Mart' recent acquisition of Britain's third largest supermarket chain brings the message much closer to home. As How Wal-Mart is Destroying the World points out, if you've ever wanted to fight for the little guy - now is the time!

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Review from Publishers Weekly
"First-Quarter profits at Wal-Mart stores are up nearly 40%. Company revenues are over $100 billion a year, and Wall Street is perfectly in love with the national mass merchandiser. But ask 86-year-old Texas journalist Bill Quinn what he thinks of "The World's Largest Retailer" and he'll tell you that good news for Wal-Mart is bad news for small-town America."

"His News appears in his new book, How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and What You Can Do About It. Quinn has been an editor and a trade industry newsletter publisher in Texas for more than 60 years. In the book, he claims in no uncertain terms that Wal-Mart is a hypocritical economic predator that is destroying the downtown retailing economies of small-town America by lying to local governments about the company's economic benefits, shamelessly exploiting its employees and using unscrupulous but quasi-legal business practices--and that is just the first chapter. In later chapters he covers the "7 Things That Happen When Wal-Mart comes to Town"(among them are"jobs are lost"; "taxpayers pay for the disaster"; and "Wal-Mart moves on")and"7 Ways Wal-Mart is Bad to the Bone"("sweatshop labor," overcharging the consumer and "a rotten record with women and minorities"). Quinn's reports come from interviews, public records and news reports detailing the darker side of the late Sam Walton's empire. The book ends with a chapter called "12 Ways You Can Fight Back" in which Quinn outlines how to keep the retailer out--and documents communities that have succeeded."(Publishers Weekly) -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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A Good Primer on the Forces that Drive Corporations 7. September 1999

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Format:Taschenbuch

A nice little book that describes exactly how a giant retailer works given the capitalist imperative to capture market share and increase shareholder dividends. Most of what the book says is obvious, but given the current euphoria over the "free market," not discussed in the main stream media. Worth reading, especially if your ideological goggles are not glued on.

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Presents quite a story of greed on the part of Wal-Mart 11. September 1999

Here are a couple of examples of life at Wal-Mart from the book. In an interview, a former store manager reported that he had a person on staff whose job was to call suppliers and demand discounts because shipments arrived incomplete or damaged, even if they actually arrived complete and undamaged. Did you know that jotting down prices in Wal-Mart for comparison shopping purposes is against store policy? Also, according to Quinn, items are stacked nearly to the ceiling in the average Wal-Mart because they are too cheap to afford warehouse space. This book is very strongly recommended.

A different way of thinking about giant box retailers. 7. M�rz 1999

Bill Quinn has researched his subject for an extended period and continuely reached the same conclusion; Walmart is effectively an insensitive hipocritive organization. This book is an early warning sign of a gaint about to fall. This book will keep you on your toes as an investor or competitor or consumer when tracking information about various retailers.

Quinn writes like he talks. He doesn't hold back expressing his deepest thoughts about a subject. Especially a subject like Walmart, that directly and indirectly has negatively inpacted his pocket book.