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The Influence of Walmart and Amazon on E-Commerce
Caron covered Walmart as a retail reporter for the Washington Post in the 1990s and early 2000s. She says she learned that they had a really smart team working on e-commerce in the mid-90s. One of them, Robert Davis, ended up going to work for Amazon after being told by CEO David Glass he could make one Sam's Club worth $1 billion per year. Caron: If you want to know where these two companies are going, look at how each has influenced the other.