# The Wal-Mart Effect

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- Book: [The Wal-Mart Effect](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-fishman/the-wal-mart-effect) ([The Wal-Mart Effect.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-fishman/the-wal-mart-effect.md))
- Authors: [Charles Fishman](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-fishman)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-979-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2007-02-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Charles Fishman takes us into the heart of the biggest company on earth, ever, to show how the ‘Wal-Mart effect’ shapes lives everywhere, whether for cleaners in America, bicycle-makers in China or salmon farmers in Chile. Now Wal-Mart’s influence is so great it can determine everything from working practices to market forces themselves, Fishman asks: how did a shop manage to do all this? And what will the ultimate cost of low prices be?