WalMart

BigCo/Big Retail. In 2024, Walmart has ~2M employees, roughy the population of England in 1500.

2010 naive-me: perhaps the most obnoxious BigCo/Big Retail? (other than Microsoft?)

my big non-PublicPolicy recommendation: don't shop there. Buy your necessities elsewhere, and if paying more for those leaves no money for non-necessities, then so be it.

• c2000: note that I buy a fair amount of stuff at K-Mart, so I'm slightly hypocritical about this maybe

http://www.walmartwatch.com/

Recipient of Corporate Welfare from local governments.

• Stephen Bainbridge on some details

Book Store!

• Text-Book sales
• In mid-1990, the company acquired Western Merchandise, Inc., of Amarillo, Texas, a supplier of music, books, and video products to many of the Wal-Mart stores.
• (1999): deal with Books A Million to handle E Commerce of books
• (2004): Wal-Mart can account for as much as 20% of sales of popular books. But Raab says that's truer for commercial fiction by well-known novelists such as Nicholas Sparks than for political titles.
• Jun'2007: dropping Mid List to focus on Best Sellers?