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| Author: John Dicker
Publisher: Tarcher
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1585424226
Dewey Decimal Number: 381.1490973
EAN: 9781585424221
Publication Date: June 16, 2005
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 fantastic July 9, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
wal-mart is having a profound effect on our world. this book is intelligent and well written. it's easy to read and very compelling. hopefully it will have a very large audience. keep an open mind. the life you save may be your own.
 For those rich people than can afford to shop somewhere else June 29, 2006
3 out of 19 found this review helpful
First let me say I DO NOT LIKE WAL_MART. What none of these reviewers think of is this, NOBODY FORCES PEOPLE TO WORK FOR WALMART. If they were not working at walmart, 99% of the minimum wage employees would be working somewhere else still getting paid minimum wage and poor insurance at some fast food place or grocery store. So cut the poor employees story. The purpose of a business is TO MAKE MONEY. IT IS NOT A NON-PROFIT COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!. IT is also not the governments responsibility to take care of poor people!!!!!!! If people don't have the sense to take care of themselves it is nobody's fault but there own. These people act like walmart is the only company that makes shrewd business decisions. Companies have done it for decades, if not centuries. If it wasn't WAL-Mart it would be K-mart, if not them it would be Target. Also, I get tired of hearing about the Mom and Pop stores that get ran out of business. I will feel sorry for them when these small business owners stop riding around in Full size SUVs and Luxury cars. They have every opportunity to grow their businesses too. and if they can't then again it is their own fault!!!!! Hey IF you don't like it go to Europe Live there for a few years and see how much more things cost because of small businesses.
Three Stars for Facts, Minus 2 Stars for Its Anti-Christian Bias June 13, 2006
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is a little against WalMart despite the author saying it isn't a book for or against WalMart. As an example, he brings up Tim Lahay's rapture themed books and (with a sarcastic tone) how the judgment day scene Tim described is similar to how WalMart destroys the competition and people who are against them. I don't mind the comparison, but the author bashes Christians who believe in Judgment Day, and a God who punishes sinners. Also, it's absurd to make fun of God judging let alone punishing sinners, because criminals get judged in America all the time, as well as the innocent to free them. Does anyone have a problem with that? Furthermore, don't law-breakers deserve to be punished, or does the author propose we let murderers, rapists, liars, and those who harass to whatever they want, being rewarded with continued freedom or gifts? Should Hitler be let into heaven assuming he never asked God to forgive him? Should he be let into heaven if he has no change of heart?
Another reviewer says there is foul language in this book, keep that in mind as well.
 Gritty language does not equal gritty reporting. February 27, 2006
10 out of 19 found this review helpful
Mr. Dicker seems to believe that peppering his text with foul language gives his work an edge. I can't decide if he is just trying to be hip, urbane or if his vocabulary is so limited he has no other option.
If Mr. Dicker considers himself a serious writer, and apparently he does, he should concentrate on holding the readers' attention through solid writing and give up the crass language.
I would not recommend this book for anyone expecting a thoughtful, carefully crafted critique of Wal-mart.
Insightful and Interesting Perspective ... January 30, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
We don't have a Wal Mart in our area yet ~~ but it's coming soon. I will be honest. I picked this book up out of curiousity. It seems that Wal Mart is everyone's favorite new bashing toy ~~ no matter how many people I know work there. The author has had me intrigued from the first page on.
He gives some interesting history of Sam Walton, the founder of the company. He also gives some history of retail business and how it affects the economy/nation. He interjects sarcastic remarks as well as insightful remarks ~~ he keeps me, the reader, on my toes throughout this book. He presents the facts as I've read throughout the years in the newspapers as well as presenting some interesting tidbits that one wouldn't get from the media.
He makes good points in his arguments. Yes. Wal Mart is a retail giant ~~ one of the largest in the world. Yes. Wal Mart is not paying her employees fairly or with health insurance. Yes. Wal Mart has a high turnover in employees. Yes. Wal Mart has moved into small rural communities and "take away the jobs" and edged out their mom and pop competitors. Yes. Wal Mart is a way of life nowadays for a lot of people. Yes. Wal Mart is cheap.
Wal Mart took advantage of the suburbia mania ~~ when everyone started leaving the downtown and moving to the suburbs, where the malls are. Wal Mart also made the prices lower than the competitors till the competitors all fade away. Wal Mart also practices censorships of certain musical artists, magazines but yet sells guns and religious material in their stores. They have a ready excuse for any complaint and yet doesn't do anything to address the issue at hand.
It is an interesting book ~~ one that has definitely waken me up to what is going on in our country. My husband is an union member and now I am finally starting to understand why the unions are so anti-Wal Mart. And Wal Mart is not the only institution out there guilty of being cheap. But they're the biggest and easiest to point at because the facts are there. The author pointed out that sometimes the truth hurts.
If you're looking for an entertainment reading, I wouldn't pick this one. It's not entertaining. It's a book that keeps you thinking and reading and thinking. It's a book that compels you to action ~~ even if it's just a simple act of not shopping at Wal Mart anymore and supporting the local businesses in your community. This is not your beach book ~~ this is a insightful book on a serious situation facing our country today. It's one that I wish I had read a lot sooner.
1-29-06
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