Sam walton says in the book, his name is henry cunningham, i want to believe, who was the co cresky when they launched camart. And that sam believes had cunningham still been running camart as mart started to decline, the company would have made different choices. I think he would say that we put a walmart in a community and it was better for consumers, and so than people needed to adapt. Of course, existing merchants hated us, but did consumers hate us? No, i don't think so. At all,. One, especially for customers and well everywhere, saving money, and saving significant amounts of money on your everyday purchases, that's
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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