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Final Touch | 
| Author: Judith Cain Dotson
Publisher: Mcbook Pub Llc
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 4112041
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0970577710
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780970577719
Publication Date: December 8, 2000
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Product Description
Every day, millions of shoppers crowd into the big discount stores unaware of any danger. Over 30,000 accidents, a multitude of injuries, and a number of deaths have occurred in recent years. This book pulls together the family stories, personal memories and the pain that resulted from what is believed to be the first death in this new merchandising concept into a memoir of an Oklahoma woman. This true story provokes tears, laughter, and thought in its readers.
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True Story September 13, 2003
The true and tragic story of a mother's untimely death while shopping for cleaning supplies in a Wal-Mart (SAMS Club). The story is prefaced with wonderful background of life and family in rural Oklahoma. Imagine being a little girl so poor that you accompany your Father to buy chicken feed...so you can pick out the sacks...for your next dress. The family ties, loyalty to family, and love of family are refreshing in an age where families fall apart at an alarming rate. The heartless and callous behavior of Wal-Mart executives after the death is shocking (NOTE: Hitlary Clinton was on the Board of Directors). The court battle that develops is a true "David vs. Goliath" story as Wal-Mart's corporate attorney takes on the families life-long friend, a simple "country" attorney. The intensity and suspense of the court battle will keep you reading. Shame on Wal-Mart and SAM's club for focusing on corporate greed instead of customer safety. This book would make a good movie.
For the love of a mother..... December 29, 2000
Judith Cain Dotson's first book is a smooth read. It is a journey from the tragedy of her mother's untimely death to a family's realization that while they cannot "bring back" their mother, their efforts to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening to others is one way to keep her memory alive. Ms. Dotson's courage to write about her mother's death and the events that followed makes for a "David and Goliath" tale that's a must read!
A must read for America's bargain shoppers December 21, 2000
Heads up! It seems that preventable accidental death is cost effective where America shops. The sounds of forklifts and the sight of merchandise stacked hight are all ploys to give the shopper the illusion that they are getting a great deal. What the shopper doesn't realize and what Dolly Cain discovered is that the ambiance of a bargain warehouse is the prime objective--not the safety of the customer. An occasional incident is acceptable to the bottom line. Judith Cain Dotson, the Cain family cantadora, has put a face on one such 1985 incident. In Final Touch we have the pleasure of meeting Dolly Bryant Cain. Mrs. Cain was one of the outstanding memebers of what Tom Brokaw has labeled the Greatest Generation. Dolly was a loving wife, mother, artist, and poet. At the time of her death she had successfully battled cancer. In one of Mrs. Cain's poems she asks, "What would you think if in the morning/When you looked upon the clock--/If the time was moving backwards,/If yesterday were tomorrow, t'would be awkward." Turning yesterday into today is what Judith Dotson does as she takes us through her mother's life. In Final Touch we meet a joyous woman that supported her family while reciting poetry, a farm woman that was known to gift-wrap chicken feet, a woman that kenw how to find joy in the moment.If Dolly Cain could turn back the hands of time, she would join her daughter and the readers of this book in demanding that the super discount stores take the forklifts out of their stores during business hours. According to Dotson, there have been, "Over 30,000 falling merchandise accidents from 1989-1997 in the Wal-Mart system." Final Touch is a must read for any American that shops in warehouse type stores.
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