I have had The Walmart Effect on my “to-read” list for a while, because I think it is interesting to understand how Walmart has changed–completely–our economy and society in positive and negative ways. So I enjoyed today listening to the author, Charles Fishman, present about the book. It’s a great listen, and helped move the book a little higher up my to-read list for me! It reinforced for me how things that you think are very positive–such as cars and low prices–can also have negative effects. There is always a cost to progress that we should understand as we continually innovate and invent.