Walmart is a global empire with ten thousand, 500 stores each week. 230 million customers visit one of these stores. Sam's clubs has been a pretty successful part of the company but losing to cosco. They do have a 24 % gross margin, which is interestingly higher than in sam's hayday. And finally, since they really do want feedback, you can of course emal brenton or brat, or any of them from the email addresses on the paper when you down load it. Or even better, we're going to do a zoomcall with them to talk about all these ideas together.
We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its heritage runs through Amazon and so many iconic modern companies we cover on Acquired. This episode was an absolute blast, and we even uncovered a new addendum to the hallowed “focus on what makes your beer taste better” playbook theme!
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