Assignment: The Wal-Mart Effect
1. Who is Jon Fleck and what is "Makin Bacon"?
2. What is it about Jon Fleck's relationship with Wal-Mart that allows him to be successful?
3. List and briefly describe three of Wal-Mart's "partners" or supply companies.
4. How would you describe the relationship between the suppliers mentioned and Wal-Mart?
5. What are pallets and what did Wal-Mart like about them?
6. What is the main idea? Please explain in detail.
7. Chapter four starts out with a story about the gallon jar of pickles. What point is the author trying to illustrate with the price of these pickles at Wal-Mart?
8. List three companies that have felt the Wal-Mart "squeeze". Briefly explain what happened to these companies.
9. What point is the author trying to make in the first part of Chapter four?