Alice Pitman
Shopping’s Behemoth
The Wal-Mart Effect
By Charles Fishman
Allen Lane / Penguin Press 294pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
Every week, more than one hundred million Americans shop at Wal-Mart (93 per cent of the population every year), and 138 million visit its stores worldwide each week. Since their takeover of Asda, they have become, worryingly, the second largest retailer over here. Not bad going for a business that started life as a small bargain store in a remote corner of Arkansas in 1962.
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