Monday, November 17, 2003

Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?

"The real story of Wal-Mart," writes Charles Fishman, "the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us 'every day low prices.' It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to the economy as a whole."