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1) Cheap: the high cost of discount culture

Author

Shell, Ellen Ruppel

Pub. Date

2009

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Book, eAudiobook

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An Atlantic correspondent evaluates America's penchant for making and buying cheap products while assessing the true economic, political, and psychological costs of such goods, in a report that argues that a focus on low prices is promoting negative practices.

2) Buffalo Valley

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Series

Dakota series (Debbie Macomber) volume 4

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It's a time of change for a small prairie town Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has a will to survive, to prosper. And the outside world has discovered Buffalo Valley. A large retail conglomerate plans to move in, which would surely destroy the independent businesses...and maybe the town. It's a season of change for Vaughn Kyle Just out of the army, he's looking for a life to live--and waits for his reluctant fiancée to make up her mind. Vaughn decides...

3) The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works, and how it's transforming the American economy

Author

Fishman, Charles

Publisher

Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2006

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Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest company--it is the largest company in the history of the world. It is estimated that the company's low prices save American consumers $10 billion a year--but the #1 employer in 37 states has never let a union in the door. Though 70% of Americans now live within a 15-minute drive of a Wal-Mart, we have not even begun to understand the true power of the company. We know about the lawsuits and the labour protests,...