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Chargement... The Bully of Bentonvillepar Anthony Bianco
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The author details the vision that Sam Walton brought to fruition, and who got hurt in the process. The true cost of cheap goods is indeed looked at, though there are many places where the author waffled his conclusions and stumbled before making the connections he needed to make. ( ) Compelling and interesting and comprehensive. The author, a BusinessWeek editor, puts together all the stories and research about Wal-Mart and its deletory effects on our economy, culture, and labor market. On the downside, the editing does not seem strong: it rambled across and seems to include every possible piece of research and anecdote, no matter how interesting, and some of them repeated twice which I've never experienced before and now why. It could have been a taut read at 160 pages instead of its watery 252 pages repeating itself. It never becomes polemic and does itself justice in that regard. Do you shop at Wal-Mart? You probably won't after reading this book. I have worked for consumer packaged goods manufacturers and have seen the challenges that Wal-Mart (Wally World to its friends) puts in the way of doing business, and this book accurately captures them. It also accurately captures the delicate balance of "damned if you do...damned if you don't" that is the essence of doing business with Wal-Mart. All the same, I won't shop at Wal-Mart again, not until it cleans up its act, which I believe is scheduled for just before the Apocalypse. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week. But Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices" come at a tremendous cost to workers, suppliers, competitors, and consumers. The Bully of Bentonville exposes the zealous, secretive, small-town mentality that rules Wal-Mart and chronicles its far-reaching consequences. In a gripping, richly textured narrative, Anthony Bianco shows how Wal-Mart has driven down retail wages throughout the country, how their substandard pay and meager health-care policy and anti-union mentality have led to a large scales exploitation of workers, why their aggressive expansion inevitably puts locally owned stores out of business, and how their pricing policies have forced suppliers to outsource work and move thousands of jobs overseas. Based on interviews with Wal-Mart employees, managers, executives, competitors, suppliers, customers, and community leaders, The Bully of Bentonville brings the truths about Wal-Mart into sharp focus. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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