Effetto Wal-Mart. Il costo nascosto della convenienza

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The Wal-Mart Effect: How an Out-of-Town Superstore Became a Superpower is a 2006 book by business journalist Charles Fishman which describes local and global economic effects attributable to the retail chain Walmart.
In the book, Fishman writes that Walmart is arguably the world's most important privately controlled economic institution, and that the phrase "the Wal-Mart effect" is shorthand for a wide range of both positive and negative impacts on consumers resulting from how Walmart does its business. He describes these effects as including the suburbanization of the local shopping experience, the driving down of local prices for all everyday necessities, the draining of the viability of the traditional local shopping areas, a continual downward pressure on local wages, the consolidation of consumer product companies aiming to match Walmart's scale, a continual downward pressure on inflation, and a new and continual cost scrutiny at a wide ranges of businesses enabling them to survive on thinner profit margins.