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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This reminds me of a book called The People's Republic of Wal-Mart. In particular this excerpt about when SEARS decided to run its internal operations as a competitive free market is pretty eye-opening

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I think Richard-D-Wolff had an episode about SEARS: essentially they had departments competing with each other with advertising as the reward. Power tools ended up as the cover for the Mother’s Day newspaper insert.