Posted on 06/05/2010 4:55:17 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Walmart Stores Inc.'s chief executive officer told shareholders Friday that the company is positioning itself for 20 years of worldwide growth and that it plans to hire a half-million employees over the next five years.
The company also unveiled a new $15 billion stock buyback. But it was short on specifics on how it will turn around weak business at its U.S. Walmart stores as the rest of the retail industry, including its key competitor Target Corp., has started to heat up.
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Particularly if they market the data: Imagine diabetics receiving mailings from drug manufacturers (at the same time insurers are sold list of persons to screen for pre-existing conditions).
IMO, the market for people looking for a detailed self-DNA analysis and those who shop at Walmart are mutually exclusive.
Hey, if we’re not going to have our postal service do the census for us, we might as well contract it out to Walmart next time around.
Should make for one helluva bull market in burqas.
Which country are they hiring these 500,000 in?
Since Obama became prez and the economy crashed, I have not shopped at any of these stores. I grow food and buy what I need in addition to storage stocks (for me and my neighbors’s children). I don’t buy clothes or anything else I don’t absolutely need. Walmart is Chi-com, La Raza crap in Texas.
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