***Walmart has eleven thousand stores.***
Not bad for a Mom and Pop store on the west side of the square in Bentonville. Then one day Sam took a chance to buy a series of bankrupt Ben Franklin stores and changed the name from WALTON’S 5&10 to WALMART.
The first man to break the economic stranglehold of the Chicken Men who only paid starvation wages.
Went by their HQ for the first time last year.
I was surprised how spartan the place is.
Looks like a state prison surrounded by huge metal pole barn type structures.
They certainly aren’t wasting any shareholder dough on fancy facilities.
Now Mrs. Walton’s art museum (free to visit and highly recommended btw) was a whole ‘nother deal, but that’s personal money.