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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sam Walton Sam Walton Keith Elliot Greenberg Traces the life of Samuel Walton, the businessman who became wealthy by creating Wal-Mart, the most successful chain of retail stores in America. OL14919480W
Discount Business Strategy Discount Business Strategy Michael Moesgaard Andersen What people are saying about Discount Business Strategy: "Michael Andersen and Flemming Poulfelt provide a provocative discussion of the rapidly growing role of discounters across numerous industri… OL15178715W
How Wal-Mart is destroying America (and the world) and what you can do about it How Wal-Mart is destroying America (and the world) and what you can do about it Bill Quinn Presents an accounts of Wal-Mart's questionable business practices, including false advertising, manipulation of zoning laws, unfair pricing, overexpansion, low wages, long work hours, and the provis… OL15843335W
Monument 14 Monument 14 Emmy Laybourne Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient… OL18173455W
The story of Target The story of Target Sara Gilbert "A look at the origins, leaders, growth, and products of Target Corporation, the discount retailer founded in 1962, which is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States today"-- OL23309889W
Sol Price Sol Price Robert E. Price "Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator, recounts the extraordinary life of a man who profoundly impacted the shopping habits of consumers in the United States and throughout much of th… OL24299403W
Sdelano v Amerike Sdelano v Amerike Sam Walton This story chronicles the late Sam Walton who was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America rise from a small-town millionaire to a revolutionary who would revolutionized the retail distr… OL27710748W
The richest man in town The richest man in town V. J. Smith Riches are not always found in money. This book is about a simple man who ran a cash register. He worked hard and was good to people. That, in turn, made him happy. OL29242571W
The Wal-Mart effect The Wal-Mart effect Charles Fishman Wal-Mart isn't just the world's biggest company, it is probably the world's most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics… OL5851704W
The United States of Wal-Mart The United States of Wal-Mart John Dicker,John Dicker An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest-and most reviled-corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart's dominance may be providing consumers with cheap goods and plentiful jo… OL8960160W