El objetivo del artículo es estudiar el papel de la primera minorista trasnacional, por sus ingresos por ventas, la estadounidense Wal-Mart Stores Inc., en el proceso de introducción hacia el mercado interno de América Latina, específicamente de México, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador,...

El objeto del presente estudio es describir los efectos que han tenido sobre la morfología de la población los fenómenos socioeconómicos acaecidos en la última década en Argentina, particularmente en el mercado laboral y, consecuentemente, en los hogares. Específicamente, en aquellos...

This paper analyzes the effect of access to different types of food outlets on households’ food insecurity levels. Two years (2004 and 2005) of Current Population Survey – Food Security Supplement data are matched with MSA-level data on store counts of Wal-Mart Supercenters, small food...

The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Supermarkets’ Profit Margins. XIAOOU LIU (Email: xiaoou2010@gmail.com, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China 100872) RIGOBERTO LOPEZ (Professor and Department Head, Department of Agricultural...

In this paper, estimates of the impacts of various factors on the refrigerated OJ sales in Wal-Mart (WM) stores are presented. Data on WM stores, as well as grocery stores doing $2 million or greater annual business, across 52 Nielsen city markets (including the remaining U.S.) were studied....

The Indian consumers have undergone a remarkable transformation. Just a decade or two ago, the Indian consumers saved most of their income, purchased the bare necessities and rarely indulged themselves. Today, armed with a higher income, credit cards exposure to the shopping culture of the west...

Research attributes much of the rise in obesity to technological progress reducing the cost of food consumption. We examine this hypothesis in the context of Walmart Supercenters, whose advancements in retail logistics have translated to substantial reductions in food prices. Using data from the...

Retail chains and imports of consumer goods from developing countries have grown sharply over the past 25 years. Wal-Mart’s sales, which currently account for 15% of U.S. imports of consumer goods from China, grew 90-fold over this period, while U.S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We...

Using publicly available data sources and data supplied by Wal-Mart, I estimate the impact of a proposed “big box living wage ordinance†on a new Wal-Mart store scheduled to open in Chicago in the spring of 2006. I find that an ordinance that mandates a $10.00 per hour minimum wage and...