Writing about the Wa

What’s your idea?
What’s your hypothesis?
How will you test it?

How has Wal-Mart been received in other countries?
Employee wages, benefits, insurance, part-time vs. full-time
Price comparison of similar products
How do they help the community?
How much do the big dogs make?

How much corporate giving?
Ethnicities and gender of employees?
Corporate governance?
Handicapped parking spaces?
Angled vs. unangled parking spaces?
Wal-Mart and environmental issues
Sweatshops and Kathie Lee Gifford

Effects of chain stores on health
Big corporate industries and control of economy -- dangers or benefits of communist trends
PIG -- Personal instant gratification
How effective is Wal-Mart’s advertising
What effect does Wal-Mart have on small businesses?
How has Wal-Mart grown since the beginning?

What has made Wal-Mart succeed above the rest?
How does Wal-Mart’s location/hours/prices/items affect shopping habits
What do employees think of Wal-Mart?
Wal-Mart in China
Income of Wal-Mart shoppers
Advertising and Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart and WTO
Wal-Mart and production possibility frontiers
Wal-Mart and currency velocity
Where does the board of directors come from?
Which products are made in the USA?


How does Wal-Mart affect small businesses?
What economy changes occur in towns due to Wal-Mart?
What effect is Wal-Mart having on the companies they do business with?
What is Wal-Mart’s notion of community?
Litigation

Wal-Mart’s stranglehold on small-town America
Maybe Wal-Mart shoppers stereotype
Wal-Mart Canada

Louise’s Question
Did the media coverage of Wal-Mart arrival in Bemidji fit the national pattern? How was it similar? How was it different?
Hypothesis: It fit the pattern exactly. Media coverage divided the town in the early 90s, then they slipped in ten years later.