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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices

Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

Research shows that grocery stores reduce prices to compete with Walmart Supercenters. This study finds evidence that the competitive effects of two other big box retailers – Costco and Walmart-owned Sam's Club – are quite different. Using city-level panel grocery price data matched with a...

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Painting the Town Red? Wal-Mart and Values

Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Meiners, Jeremy - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2008

This essay explores the relationship between commerce and culture in the context of the recent debate over the social effect of Wal-Mart. In spite of much public debate, little is known about how Wal-Mart affects values. Using data collected from multiple sources, we show there is little...

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Does Wal-Mart reduce social capital?

Carden, Art; Courtemanche, Charles; Meiners, Jeremy - In: Public Choice 138 (2009) 1, pp. 109-136

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The vital two : retail innovation by Sol Price and Sam Walton

Carden, Art; Courtemanche, Charles; Harris, Reginald - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 40 (2022), pp. 188-209

Sol Price and Sam Walton changed retail in the twentieth century. Price changed retail by combining knowledge he … assembled from real estate law and the firms he observed to find creative ways to innovate in discount retail. Walton, too … acquired from studying retail logistics to develop a supply chain that dramatically lowered costs and passed those savings onto …

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