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WORKING TWICE AS HARD BECAUSE WE ARE TERRIBLY UNDERSTAFFED AT EVERY STORE. ORIGINALLY 500 ASSOCIATE STORES NOW ARE LUCKY IF THEY HAVE 280. AND MOST ARE PART TIME. OUT OF STOCK ON MOST ITEMS BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE TO WORK THE FREIGHT. BUT THEY WON'T TALK TO ME...I'M A JERK RIGHT LEE? |
| I STILL HAVE LOADS OF ITEMS THAT WERE SENT TO ME FROM ROBERT GREENWALD. NONE OF IT IS MINE. ANYONE FROM LOUISIANA MISSING ITEMS PLEASE CONTACT ME. I SHOULD HAVE SIGNED THE RELEASE. |
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Sam Walton's 10 Rules for Success Not much need for an introduction, explanation or commentary. (ed.) The basics ... Rule #1 Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anything else. If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do the best you can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever. Rule #2 Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Rule #3 Motivate your partners. Money and ownership aren’t enough. Set high goals, encourage competition and then keep score. Make bets with outrageous payoffs. Rule #4 Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they’ll understand. The more they understand, the more they’ll care. Once they care, there’s no stopping them. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitors. Rule #5 Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune. Rule #6 Celebrate your success and find humour in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails put on a costume and sing a silly song. Rule #7 Listen to everyone in your company, and figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front line - the ones who actually talk to customers - are the only ones who really know what’s going on out there. You’d better find out what they know. Rule #8 Exceed your customer’s expectations. If you do they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more. Let them know you appreciate them. Make good on all your mistakes, and don't make excuses - apologize. Stand behind everything you do. ‘Satisfaction guaranteed’ will make all the difference. Rule #9 Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient. Rule #10 Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. |
| "Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. Sam Walton Capital isn't scarce; vision is. Sam Walton Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. Sam Walton High expectations are the key to everything. Sam Walton I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. Sam Walton I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Sam Walton There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of. Sam Walton We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. Sam Walton We're all working together; that's the secret. Sam Walton |
| Wal-Mart Announces Management Changes and Organization Realignment Bentonville, Ark., Sept. 30, 2005 – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced key management changes and a realignment of responsibilities for some of its most senior executives, effective today. Wal-Mart Stores and Wal-Mart International John Menzer, president and CEO of Wal-Mart International, and Mike Duke, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., have been promoted to vice chairman positions within the company. Menzer will take responsibility for major functions of the U.S. business, and Duke will take over leadership of Wal-Mart International, the company’s fastest-growing division. Eduardo Castro-Wright, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., has been named president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., reporting to Menzer. Pat Curran, senior vice president and a divisional manager for Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., has been promoted to executive vice president for store operations, reporting to Castro-Wright. Lee Scott, Wal-Mart president and CEO, said the shift in responsibilities for Menzer and Duke would benefit both the U.S. and international businesses. “John will continue to accelerate changes in the largest segment of our business,” Scott said. “During the last six years, he transformed Wal-Mart International into a well-organized, fast-growing and profitable business. Prior to that, as Wal-Mart’s corporate chief financial officer, John established a solid track record as a business strategist who delivers results.” In addition to his responsibility for Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., Menzer will head the divisions responsible for real estate, logistics, information services, benefits, global procurement, financial services, store planning and strategic planning. Scott said Duke’s experience heading Wal-Mart’s largest operating unit in the U.S., coupled with his previous experience as head of the company’s logistics operations, makes him uniquely qualified to run Wal-Mart’s international business. “Mike has brought to the U.S. operations exactly what was needed during the last couple of years,” said Scott. “Mike has the ability and the management confidence to delegate responsibility to the best people in his organization, and develop and promote them. This new assignment will give us the opportunity to apply those skills to our overseas operations.” As president of Wal-Mart Stores, U.S.A., Castro-Wright will be responsible for operations, merchandising, marketing, specialty divisions and new business development in the company’s U.S. Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets. “Since coming to the U.S. six months ago as the chief operating officer, Eduardo’s passion and vision have helped us focus on how to serve our customers better while improving the performance and profitability of our stores,” Scott said. “In his role as president and CEO of Wal-Mart Mexico, Eduardo led the team to high standards of performance and growth.” Scott said Curran, who takes on operational responsibility for all Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., is a great Wal- Mart success story. He added, “Pat started as an hourly store associate in the pet department over 22 years ago. She has served in a number of management positions, including department manager, store manager and divisional merchandise manager. These experiences will help her serve our customers, our stores and all our associates as she assumes this key position. Pat is a respected leader, a terrific communicator and talented merchant. I look forward to the contributions she will make to Wal-Mart’s senior management team." These changes represent an opportunity to boost our performance and help us become a more diverse and global enterprise,” said Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart’s board of directors. “John and Mike’s new responsibilities take full advantage of the skills they bring to our company. Elevating them to vice chairmen will position them to contribute more broadly to the company.” In addition, Walton said, “Eduardo, with Pat’s assistance, will bring new perspectives and fresh ideas to our business in the U.S. and help us accelerate the changes we need to make.” |
| October 2, 2005 Early on a Sunday morning I wonder how many Walmart Associates have gone to work instead of church because they have no choice? Even thought Walmart Corporate says they do not have control, over all the store managers they have basic policies that are supposed to be followed. I personally know of store managers who could care less about a person's desire to attend church and have seen associates upset by being forced to choose. For some reason I don't think Sam meant it to be that way. Every day is a day where the associates that remain continue to be herded by their individual store manager to do as he/she wishes and nothing more. The posters and quotes on the walls mean nothing. The three beliefs are truly a thing of the past and the culture is dead. I am in the period of denial that follows being part of "The Cult" and it seems to take for ever for any kind of recovery to take hold. Seriously, I pray they will wake up, send an email and hope someone will open their door and see what has gone wrong. I just cannot believe this is Sam Walton's plan. I cannot believe his family is so disconnected from what their father did. |
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