Sol Price

Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator

Biography

by

Robert E. Price

2012

2012

A biography of Sol Price, the retail pioneer who helped create the discount retail and membership warehouse club models that influenced Walmart, Home Depot, Costco, and others. The book explores Sol’s life, the companies he founded, the principles behind his retail success, and his later efforts to improve underserved communities through philanthropy and social innovation.

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