Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon
Nonfiction work
By: Sandra S. Vance and Roy V. Scott
Date: 1994
Source: Vance, Sandra S., and Roy V. Scott. Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon. New York: Twayne, 1994, 156–167.
About the Authors: Economic and business historian Sandra S. Vance (1946–) has written about retail businesses and teaches in the Social Science Department of Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi. Historian Roy V. Scott (1927–), author of a number of books and articles on agricultural and railroad history, teaches at Mississippi State University.
Introduction
Economists and business historians have often argued that small businesses oriented toward retail sales have served historically as the backbone of the American economy. Yet retailing in the 1990s continued its long-term trend toward combining elements of small business with the economies...
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