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IRP: Week Two Worksheet
The Wal-Mart Effect
Chapters 3 and 4, pages 51 – 97
1. Who is Jon Fleck and what is “Makin Bacon”?
2. What is it about Jon Fleck’s relationship with Wal-Mart that
allows him to be successful?
3. List and briefly describe three of Wal-Mart’s “partners” or
supply companies.
4. How would you describe the relationship between the
suppliers mentioned in Chapter 3 and Wal-Mart?
5. What are pallets and what did Wal-Mart like about them?
6. What is the main idea of Chapter Three? Please explain in
detail.
7. Chapter four starts out with a story about the gallon jar of
pickles. What point is the author trying to
illustrate with the price of these pickles at Wal-Mart?
8. List three companies that have felt the Wal-Mart “squeeze”.
Briefly explain what happened to these
companies.
9. What point is the author trying to make in the first part of
Chapter four?
IRP  Week Two Worksheet The Wal-Mart Effect Chapters .docx

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IRP Week Two Worksheet The Wal-Mart Effect Chapters .docx

  • 1. IRP: Week Two Worksheet The Wal-Mart Effect Chapters 3 and 4, pages 51 – 97 1. Who is Jon Fleck and what is “Makin Bacon”? 2. What is it about Jon Fleck’s relationship with Wal-Mart that allows him to be successful? 3. List and briefly describe three of Wal-Mart’s “partners” or supply companies. 4. How would you describe the relationship between the suppliers mentioned in Chapter 3 and Wal-Mart?
  • 2. 5. What are pallets and what did Wal-Mart like about them? 6. What is the main idea of Chapter Three? Please explain in detail. 7. Chapter four starts out with a story about the gallon jar of pickles. What point is the author trying to illustrate with the price of these pickles at Wal-Mart? 8. List three companies that have felt the Wal-Mart “squeeze”. Briefly explain what happened to these companies. 9. What point is the author trying to make in the first part of Chapter four?