{"id":145,"date":"2008-08-21T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2008\/08\/21\/walmart-effect-presentation\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:05:43","slug":"walmart-effect-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2008\/08\/21\/walmart-effect-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Effect presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wal-Mart-Effect-Powerful-Works-Transforming\/dp\/1594200769\" title=\"amazon link for the Walmart Effect\"><em>The Walmart Effect <\/em><\/a>on my &#8220;to-read&#8221; list for a while, because I think it is interesting to understand how Walmart has changed&#8211;completely&#8211;our economy and society in positive and negative ways. So I enjoyed today listening to the author, Charles Fishman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnoutloud.com\/Free-Audio-Video\/Business\/Economics\/The-WalMart-Effect\/26842#\" title=\"Fishman talk\">present about the book<\/a>. It&#8217;s a great listen, and helped move the book a little higher up my to-read list for me! It reinforced for me how things that you think are very positive&#8211;such as cars and low prices&#8211;can also have negative effects. There is always a cost to progress that we should understand as we continually innovate and invent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had The Walmart Effect on my &#8220;to-read&#8221; list for a while, because I think it is interesting to understand how Walmart has changed&#8211;completely&#8211;our economy and society in positive and negative ways. So I enjoyed today listening to the author, Charles Fishman, present about the book. It&#8217;s a great listen, and helped move the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}