How Wal-Mart is Destroying America - Softcover

Quinn, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898159733 ISBN 13: 9780898159738

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 1999

Synopsis

After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop 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. Featuring detailed accounts of Wal-Mart'-'s questionable business practices and the latest information on Wal-Mart lawsuits, vendor issues, and efforts to stop expansion, Quinn shows why Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is arguably the most feared and despised corporation in the world. Whether you'-?re a customer fed up with Wal-Mart'-'s false claims, a vendor squeezed by strong-arm tactics, a worker pushed to increase the Waltons'-? bottom line, or a concerned citizen trying to save your hometown, this book will show you how to get Wal-Mart off your back and out of your backyard.BILL QUINN is a World War II veteran, retired newspaperman, and certified anti-Wal-Mart crusader. He lives with his wife, Lennie, in Grand Saline, Texas."

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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)

Synopsis:

In this text, Bill Quinn argues that Wal-Mart puts many out of work, mistreats its employees and endangers the public. He includes an interview with a disgruntled former manager, and outlines strategies for how communities can band together to fight the retail megalith.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0898159733
• ISBN 13: 9780898159738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192