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 <title>Retailing in Poland</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Europe&#039;s Hypermarkets Under Fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This economist.com story (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3847506&quot; title=&quot;Retailing in Poland (economist.com)&quot;&gt;Retailing in Poland&lt;/a&gt;) makes an interesting point - how do consumers react when large multinational companies enter low-income markets? In this case, so-called hypermarkets (similar to American Wal-Mart stores) have been gaining market share over local small businesses, and not everyone in Poland is pleased. Making things worse are allegations that some hypermarkets have been exploiting their workers, not paying them overtime and subjecting them to poor labor conditions.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <category domain="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/topic/consumer-products">Consumer Products</category>
 <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:54:50 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Rob Katz</dc:creator>
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