ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: Rethinking Wal-Mart from an economic view
It is said America loves an underdog. If that’s true, so is the reverse. No one, it seems, loves the Goliath, the big kid on the block, the frontrunner. And in the world of retail mass merchandizing, they don’t get any bigger than Wal-Mart. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company has been a force to be reckoned with in almost every corner of the country, including all parts of Indiana, for almost two decades. Its sprawling superstores employ more than 1-1/2 million…