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Wal-Mart is one of the key forces that propelled global outsourcing -- off-shoring of U .S . jobs -- precisely because it controls so much of the purchasing power of the U .S . economy

- Gary Gereffi Duke University professor on global supply chains

The growth and dominance of Wal-Mart over the years has indeed turned it into an economy all its own . There is no single corporation in the world that has as much impact as Wal-Mart has , save perhaps for oil corporations , on any single domestic or even international economy . The volume

of sales which Wal-Mart generates is enough to keep the rest of the world happily employed and is also enough to keep the consumerist population of the United States happy in their spending habits . Every single commodity manufacturer who is interested in surviving must be able to gain the good graces of Wal-Mart . The impact of Wal-Mart is such that it has life-or-death decision over [almost] all the consumer goods industries that exist in the United States (Gereffi 2006

This virtually unbridled power of the life or death of consumer goods industries , however , presents the question of whether or not Wal-Mart is indeed good for America . While it certainly does create jobs and sustains the consumer goods industries of America , it also has the same power of taking such benefits away and perhaps leaving the American economy in a far worse off situation than it is at the present Wal-Mart has become so powerful that any shift...

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