If the stores on Main Street are boarded up, Sam Walton is to blame.
John Walton, the son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, perished in a plane crash last June.
At one of his first variety stores in Arkansas, Sam Walton had an original idea.
Bezos is where Sam Walton was 40 years ago, building infrastructure and warehouse fulfillment centers.
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Sam Walton was an Olympian in this sense, a long-distance runner in the race for competitive ideas.
Sam Walton first brought in greeters in 1980 particularly to make the stores comfortable for older shoppers.
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In 1991 Sam Walton himself asked Donald to join him to run a small, almost experimental grocery division.
Did Sam Walton go to Sears and say, look you guys, this is what you are doing wrong?
Just ask Sam Walton who sold necessities at low prices to those in small towns and rural communities.
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Its distribution system, fine-tuned over decades by Sam Walton, is unequaled in retailing.
More recently Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Gordon Moore and others: capitalists long ranking as the ultimate wealth creators!
The 57-year-old is the daughter-in-law of Sam Walton, who founded retail giant Wal-Mart with his brother James in 1962.
Instead, Wal-Mart used their people like they quote Sam Walton, as punctuation.
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Consider: Sam Walton figured out how to cut out the middleman in retailing with warehouses linked to his big boxes using ground transportation.
They present case histories of businessmen who built their own empires ranging from Sam Walton of Wal-Mart, to Bernard Arnault, of the luxury-goods conglomerate L.V.
In these two moves alone, Johnson is using strategic moves proven in the past by Sam Walton of Walmart and by Nordstrom department stores.
By 1991 Donald's reputation had reached Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, who flew to Phoenix to convince him to run the discount giant's nascent grocery division.
News broke only yesterday that Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was charged with drunk driving on Friday of the week before.
An obscure merchant from Arkansas, Sam Walton, figured out how to use computers and communications to improve his supply chain and get closer to the customer.
John Walton, the son of Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) founder Sam Walton, perished in a plane crash last June.
The next day Wright and her business partner, JillSinger, took turns reading aloud from Made in America, Sam Walton's autobiography, during the five-hour drive to Bentonville, Ark.
Watch for Old Economy companies that turn themselves into New Economy companies by incorporating the Internet into their daily operating activities, the way Sam Walton harnessed the computer to retailing.
For billionaire wannabes, there is always the old fashioned way of entrepreneurial success as in Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Wynn, Craig McCaw and Ron Perelman.
Sam Walton, its founder was a brilliant and iconic man.
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In 1990, Sam Walton tapped on the innovation and experience of William Follett to design, build and implement its first quick response time system to manage its video inventory.
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On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton -- who'd previously operated a Ben Franklin variety store and his own Walton's Five and Dime -- opened the first Walmart (then "Wal-Mart") in Rogers, Arkansas.
John Walton , the second son of Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, died Monday in a plane crash in Wyoming.
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