HISTORY MINUTE
Thu, 02/27/2020 - 5:00am
Sam Walton came from a poor farming family in Oklahoma and worked his way to becoming the wealthiest man in Arkansas and the head of what became the largest company in the world. He charmed customers but was very competitive. He realized early in his career that a combination of customer service and underselling competitors would bring in customers and profits where few other retailers would dare. Though already a successful businessman by age 44 in 1962, he put everything he had into an entirely new type of store, creating the first Wal-Mart.
