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Walmart

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The Planes and the Merchandizer

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Walmart built its own impa structure for everything from scratch. Early on, the two of them would take prop planes fly to places to survey where they wanted to put a store. They would identify from the air what seemed like an interest location by flying sideways so they could look out the window down at the town directly below them. And then they would go and figure out who owned that land and negotiate with them.

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