Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #828444 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on small businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3,500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world's largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the World), intrepid Texas newspaperman Bill Quinn continues the fight, detailing Wal-Mart's questionable business practices, and much more.

From the Publisher
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)

Customer Reviews

A different way of thinking about giant box retailers.
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.