The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Supermarket Concentration in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Author: Andrew William Franklin
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13:
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The Wal-Mart Effect
Author: Charles Fishman
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781594200762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal how the world's most powerful company really works and how it is transforming the American economy.
Wal-Mart World
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1135929122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As Wal-Mart World shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of years, Wal-Mart has been the largest company in the United States. Now, though, it is the largest company in the world. Its global labor practices and outsourcing strategies represent for many what contemporary economic globalization is all about. But Wal-Mart is not standing still, and is opening up stores everywhere. From Germany to Beijing to Mexico City to Tokyo, more than a billion shoppers can now hunt for bargains at a Wal-Mart superstore. Wal-Mart World is the first book to look at this incredibly important phenomenon in global perspective, with chapters that range from its growth in the US and impact on labor relations here to its fortunes overseas. How Wal-Mart manages this transition in the near future will play a significant role in the determining the character of the global economy. Wal-Mart World's impressively broad scope makes it necessary reading for anyone interested in the global impact of this economic colossus.
The Globalization of Retailing
Author: Neil M. Coe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis path-breaking collection brings together seminal contributions from the burgeoning multidisciplinary literature on the globalisation of retailing.
Environment and Planning
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcentration and Power in the Food System
Author: Philip H. Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1350183083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho controls what we eat? This book reveals how dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, exert control over contemporary food systems. It analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how opposition to this has encouraged even the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes. This revised edition has been updated to reflect recent developments in the food system, as well as the broad political economic forces that shape them. It also examines the rapidly changing technologies, such as Big Data and automation, which have the potential to reinforce, as well as to challenge, the power of the largest firms.
The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart
Author: Michael J. Hicks
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1934043389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile there have been other books on Wal-Mart, none has provided scholarly economic analysis of the impact of this retail giant. "The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart" offers significant empirical evidence which highlights important questions.
The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0309137284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.
Supermarkets and Agri-food Supply Chains
Author: David Burch
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the gradual shift in the distribution of power in agri-food supply chains, away from the manufacturers of branded food products to the global supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart and Tesco. This transformation has had a profound effect on the food we eat, together with the ways in which food is produced, processed and marketed. The authors assess the causes and consequences of this transformation, and evaluate the impacts along the whole supply chain. The book considers a variety of theoretical and cultural approaches to the analysis of change in the organization and management of the agri-food supply chain, and presents a series of studies focusing upon the effects of changes in Europe, North America and less developed countries. The impacts on farmers and workers, and implications for the environment, are also considered. The contested nature of these changes suggests a number of possible future scenarios for the global agri-food system, which are also analysed and evaluated. This book will be of great interest to postgraduate and undergraduate students in business studies, sociology, politics, geography, and cultural studies. Academic researchers and teachers, and policy makers and researchers in business, government and industry will also find much of interest.
