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? .