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49. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
50. Göransson, Jönsson, and Persson, “Extreme Business Models,” p. 55.
51. Interview with Dara O’Rourke, April 2009.
52. Larenaudie, “Inside the H&M Fashion Machine.”
53. Keisha Lamothe, “Online retail spending surges in 2006,” CNNMoney.com, January 4, 2007 (money.cnn.com/2007/01/04/news/economy/
online_sales/?postversion=2007010410).
54. Stacy Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007), p. 12.
55. Speech by Jeff Bezos at MIT, November 25, 2002 (mitworld.mit.edu/video/1/).
56. Ibid.
57. Renee Wilmeth of Google Books and Literary Architects, quoted by Dave Taylor, Ask Dave Taylor (askdavetaylor.com/what_percentage_of_books
_printed_end_up _destroyed.html).
58. H. Scott Matthews and Chris T. Hendricks, “Economic and Environmental Implications of Online Retailing in the United States,” dissertation, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2001.
59. “By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks,” predicts Jason Epstein, the former editorial director of Random House and author of Book Business: Publishing—Past, Present, and Future, quoted by Wired magazine, May 2002 (wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/longbets.html?pg=4).
60. Collin Dunn, “Online Shopping vs. Driving to the Mall: The Greener Way to Buy,” TreeHugger, February 13, 2009 (treehugger.com/files/2009/02/online-shopping-vs-driving-mall-greener.php).
61. Freecycle website: freecycle.org.
62. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. 13.
63. Ibid.
64. “Wal-Mart awarding $2B to U.S. hourly employees, report says,” Reuters, March 21, 2009 (usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009–03–19-walmart-workers_N.htm).
65. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. 13.
66. Ibid., p. 12.
67. Ibid., p. 15.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid., p. 13.
70. Ibid., p. 14.
71. Sonia Reyes, “Study: Wal-Mart Private Brands Are Catching On,” Brandweek, August 21, 2006 (brandweek.com/bw/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003019846).
72. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. 7.
73. “Where to buy appliances: Big stores aren’t necessarily the best,” Consumer Reports, September 1, 2005.
74. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. xvii.
75. “The Real Facts About Wal-Mart,” WakeUpWalMart.com (wakeupwalmart.com/facts/).
76. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Robert Greenwald, director, 2005.
77. “The Real Facts About Wal-Mart,” citing data from the UFCW analysis of Wal-Mart’s health plan, WakeUpWalMart.com, March 2008 (wakeupwalmart.com/facts/).
78. “Disclosures of Employers Whose Workers and Their Dependents Are Using State Health Insurance Programs,” Good Jobs First, updated October 26, 2009 (goodjobsfirst.org/corporate_subsidy/hidden_
taxpayer_costs.cfm).
79. “How Wal-Mart Has Used Public Money in Your State,” Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch (walmartsubsidywatch.org).
80. Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle, p. xv.
81. Al Norman, “Barstow, CA., Lawsuit Freezes Wal-Mart Distribution Center Until May,” Wal-Mart Watch, January 12, 2009 (walmartwatch.com/battlemart/archives/
barstow_ca_lawsuit_freezes_wal_mart
_distribution_center_until_may/).
82. Mike Troy, “High-tech DC streamlines supply chain,” DSN Retailing Today, May 9, 2005 (findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_mOFNP/is_9
_44/13734506/ai_n).
83. Norman, “Barstow, CA., Lawsuit Freezes Wal-Mart Distribution Center Until May.”
84. Bensman and Bromberg, “Deregulation has wrecked port trucking system.”
85. Ibid.
86. Stephanie Rosenbloom and Michael Barbaro, “Green-Light Specials, Now at Wal-Mart,” The New York Times, January 24, 2009 (nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25walmart.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1). Also see the fact sheets that Wal-Mart regularly up-dates on their company website (walmartstores.com/FactsNews/FactSheets
/#Sustainability).
87. “Zero Waste,” Wal-Mart (walmartstores.com/Sustainability/7762.aspx).