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The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman — WisdomDeck honest review

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The Wal-Mart Effect

by Charles Fishman

How Walmart's scale reshapes suppliers, towns, prices and wages, reported fairly. The necessary companion to Walton's memoir.

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Three things you will actually use

Low prices have upstream costs.
Scale changes everything it touches.
Ask who pays.

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Scale's consequences.

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