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Catalogue Number: 040518
ISBN Number: 0793646944
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Business Studies, Consumer Studies, Marketing
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2005
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
Frontline: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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Catalogue Number: 040518
ISBN Number: 0793646944
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Business Studies, Consumer Studies, Marketing
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2005
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one of empty storefronts in Circleville, Ohio; the other, a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices.
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