The Store That Ate The World

Business journalist Charles Fishman begins with a disarming story of how Wal-Mart produced an environmental benefit when the company decided that paperboard boxes around cans of deodorant were unnecessary. So they disappeared—not only from Wal-Mart but from everywhere—thereby saving many trees. But the reason Wal-Mart did this, and the reason everyone else followed, are also the key factors in a new kind and extent of destructiveness.


Read the rest of my review of two new books on Wal-Mart in today's San Francisco Chronicle Book Review . Or the longer version at Shopopolis.