SAM WALTON: MASTERMIND OF THE MASSES.

From: WWD | Date: December 11, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

BOSTON -- From his first Walton's Five and Dime to his first Wal-Mart billion, Sam Walton was a man consumed by retail.

In the end, the discount colossus he created from the upper corner of Arkansas gobbled up competitors large and small, and obliterated records set by every other retail empire along the way.

By his death in 1992, Walton's creation, Wal-Mart Stores, had $53 billion in sales with more than 1,800 stores and 400,000 associates. That was a mere bag of shells compared with today's numbers: $244 billion in revenue, roughly 5,000 stores globally and 1.4 million ...

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