Sam Walton - Wikipedia

Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that March 29 is the anniversary of the birth of U.S. Army veteran of WWII, American businessman and entrepreneur Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton who is best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club.
As a Christian businessman, he ran his business with scruples.
My darling wife and I are members of the Sam's Club and I prefer that to COSTCO any day.
The shoppers and staff at Sam's Club tend to be unpretentious and polite which is rare in area of Washington, D.C.
Many people deride Walmart and they certainly have that right. Kmart acquired Sears and dragged that department store down.
Walmart and Super Walmart in rural areas of Pennsylvania through Virginia enable shoppers to conduct one-stop-shopping for many retail items.
Rest in eternal peace Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton.

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Sam Walton Documentary - Walmart Success Story
"This is the story of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and the top 3 lessons that you can learn from his success.
"Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction." - Sam Walton
Sam Walton (born March 29, 1918) is an American entrepreneur that built Wal-Mart, the largest retail chain store in the world. He started out as a farm boy and became the richest man in America in the 1980s. From the farmlands of Oklahoma, Walton began his journey in life. His father, Thomas, was a farmer that felt he could not raise his family on the money being brought in from the farm, so he would pack everyone up and move the family to Missouri. There Thomas would become a farm loan appraiser.
Even though this job meant that the Walton family would travel all over Missouri, Sam Walton would not be discouraged. He would also excel at academics and sports, leading his high school football team as quarterback to a state championship. From high school, Walton would attend the University of Missouri and achieve his bachelor's degree in economics. While getting his bachelor's degree, he would become interested in commerce. This would make him want to enroll in the Wharton School of Business, but he could not afford to attend. He would find a job at JCPenney as a manager just three days after graduating the University of Missouri, but would eventually resign this job so he would be available to join the US military.
After serving as a security officer in the US Army Intelligence Corps for three years, Walton would resign his captain's commission. In 1945, Walton would ask his father-in-law for a loan of $20,000 so he could buy his first retail store, a Ben Franklin variety store. This would start a journey that would help him develop many of the techniques he would implement in his Wal-Mart chain of stores. These remarkable chains of events would make Walton worth more than $23 billion in the 1980s and today, Wal-Mart brings in more than $300 billion annually, along with the Sam's Club franchise Walton started, which brings in more than $40 billion annually."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwpATjdE1c

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Wonder what he would say if he cold see his stores now. I hate going to Walmart and have a daughter that hasn't been in about 4 years. And I miles about 60 milles from a base.

Amazing businessman and a very strategic thinker.