Stephane Monthe
California State University Fullerton
Egan, T. (2014). The Corporate Daddy: Walmart, Starbucks, and the Fight against Inequality. The New York Times.
The article is a jibe at Wal-Mart Supermarket, which the author accuses of paying its employees a pittance salary that cannot manage to help eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor. The author also compares the poor efforts being done by the supermarket to combat poverty standards to the a bit better strides made by Starbucks Corporation in the right direction regarding the fight to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. The strength of this article is that it takes time to use Starbucks Corporation as a control study and make comparison between the two. Using Starbucks helps the article to bring out a vivid picture of the distinction that exists between the two situations. Its weakness is that the author does not conduct any objective interview from the Wal-Mart Corporation in …show more content…
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