Sam Walton and Walmart Plains Trains and Discounts

The first episode in our four-part series on Sam Walton and Walmart. Plains trains and discounts It's 1950 in the cotton and railroad town of Newport, Arkansas. He has turned his Ben Franklin store into a community staple with businesses booming. His landlord P.K. Holmes tells him he won't be renewing their lease because there are no renewal terms. The lawyer who'd worked tirelessly to build the venture that he'd spent his entire life fighting over didn't sit well with Walmsley. There was no legal way to stop PK from refusing to renew the lease. But this was not the first time in Sam's career that he had been confronted with a monumental choice Decades before a