Wal-Mart
WAL-MART
WAL-MART was founded by Samuel Moore Walton in Rogers, Arkansas, in July 1962. He built a chain of huge discount stores mostly situated in small rural towns. Wal-Mart's success was based on everyday low prices, item merchandizing, volume movement of goods, and customer-orientated, non-unionized employees known as "associates." By Walton's death in 1992, Wal-Mart had displaced thousands of small town "Main Street" stores and become America's biggest retailer. During the 1990s Wal-Mart successfully expanded into Canada, Latin America, Europe, and the Far East. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Wal-Mart was the largest employer in the United States and the world's biggest retailer.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ortega, Bob. In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton, and How Wal-Mart is Devouring America. New York: Times Business, 1998.
Vance, Sandra S., and Roy V. Scott. Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon. New York: Twayne, 1994.
Richard A. Hawkins
See also Retailing Industry .
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So long, Sam: Sam Walton became working-class hero, retailing billionaire. (Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder dies of cancer) (Sam Walton: 1918-1992) (Obituary)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 4/13/1992; ; 700+ words
; The news of Sam Walton's death was relayed April 5 to 1...of Lowell; and 10 grandchildren. But Sam Walton also considered the 400,000 people...billion sales mark by the year 2000. And Sam Walton's Wal-Mart family has never failed...
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Sam Walton dead of cancer at 74. (Obituary)
Magazine article from: WWD; 4/6/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...lease on his Newport store in 1950, Sam Walton relocated to Bentonville, Ark...Sam's Clubs, named in honor of Sam Walton, in 1983. In 1987 the company...Indianapolis, Ind., was merged into Sam's. Walton was a subdued man with a simple...
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10 years after Walton's death, Wal-Mart reflects his vision.(Sam M. Walton)(Company Profile)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...portrait of company co-founder Sam M. Walton. After demonstrating the keypad...This month marks 10 years since Sam Walton succumbed to bone cancer in 1992...died. "After the death of founder Sam Walton in 1992, the company briefly seemed...
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Sam Walton And The Temple Of Discount; Retailing Giant's Museum, Like Stores, Draws Crowds
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/23/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...attention is Caldwell's boss, Sam Walton, the silver-haired merchant...museum. "It's where Mr. Sam got started," O'Neal...s a return to home." "Walton's 5-10" is unlike any...Center makes it seem as if Sam Walton, almost always photographed...
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SAM WALTON WAL-MART; THE FOUNDER OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RETAILER LITERALLY LIVES ON IN SPIRIT.
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 11/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...re talking about none other than Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart Stores...met. I'd never met anyone like Sam Walton before, and I've never met anyone...in underserved, rural markets. "Sam Walton had the foresight to go into areas...
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Suppliers remember a retail legend: Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder, dead at 74. (Obituary)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 4/7/1992; 700+ words
; ...Mart for seven years, said, "Sam Walton was a pioneer in the discount area...of Stage II, said, "Because of Sam Walton, I think there's more professionalism...company." Segal continued, "I met Sam Walton several times and, again, his personality...
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Wal-Mart: Sam Walton's ideas reshaped retailing industry.(20 Arkansas Icons)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 3/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Bartlesville) is simple: Back in 1950, Sam Walton thought Bentonville would be a good...to Vance Trimble's biography, "Sam Walton: Founder of Wal-Mart," a trip...book "Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon" by Sandra...
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Sam Walton, Folksy Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/6/1992; ; 700+ words
; Sam Walton, 74, the folksy but hard-driving...corporate officials in Chicago turned down Sam Walton's ideas for a discount chain keyed...mail from a rural box labeled simply "Sam and Helen Walton." He raised his four children in Bentonville...
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'Call me Sam'; snapshots from the life of a business giant. (Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.) (Sam Walton: 1918-1992) (Obituary)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business; 4/13/1992; 700+ words
; ...Oklahoma. March 1961: Sam and Helen Walton enter the banking industry...the format to work. Sam is forced to refine the...process. May 1969: Walton has a brush with death...directly into the path of Walton's plane. Sam immediately revs the...
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Walton dies at 74; founded Wal-Mart. (Sam Walton)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: Footwear News; 4/13/1992; 700+ words
; BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Sam Walton, the charismatic chairman and founder...grandchildren. Shoe div. chief on Sam Walton BENTONVILLE, Ark. - As one who had known Sam Walton since the 1950s and worked with him...
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Walton, Sam 1918-1992
Book article from: American Decades
WALTON, SAM 1918-1992 Retail magnate Empire During the 1980s Sam Walton became America's richest man, combining...States. Sources: Vance H. Trimble, Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest...
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Sam Moore Walton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sam Moore Walton Businessman Sam Moore Walton (born 1918...toward the center of the urban areas. Sam Walton died on April 5, 1992 at 74 years of...Walton penned a book in 1992 entitled Sam Walton, Made in America. By 1997, five years...
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Walton, Sam Moore
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
WALTON, SAM MOORE Sam Walton (1918 – 1992) redefined the shopping experience for...made his stores the largest retail chain in the United States. Sam Moore Walton was born to Thomas and Nancy Walton in Kingfisher, Oklahoma...
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Walton, Sam
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Walton, Sam (1918–1992), merchant, founder of Wal‐Mart Stores.Sam Walton was born near Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Graduating...Shopping Centers and Malls . Bibliography Sam Walton with and John Huey , Sam Walton, Made...
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Sam Walton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sam Walton (Samuel Moore Walton), 1918-92, American retailing executive, b. Kingfisher, Okla...the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Ark., in 1962. Walton developed Wal-Mart into a chain of massive, centrally controlled...
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