| LOOK AT THE CHART...FIVE YEARS...THE STOCK GOES DOWN ON A SLOW BUT REGULAR BASIS NOW. WHEN WILL IT GO UNDER FORTY? CLICK THE CHART FOR MORE... |
| -- But -- are you ready for this? -- between 1995 and 2003, CEO pay rose 1,767 percent, to $29.8 million from $1.6 million. That's an ominous sign in a business run on razor-thin margins. Over the long run, you can't be the low-price favorite of the masses and offer your CEO a pay package whose price tag would look high even at Neiman-Marcus. |
| LOOK AT THE CHART...FIVE YEARS...THE STOCK GOES DOWN ON A SLOW BUT REGULAR BASIS NOW. WHEN WILL IT GO UNDER FORTY? CLICK THE CHART FOR MORE... |
| I HAVE TO LOOK FOR THE CHARTS BUT I AM QUITE SURE THAT IN SEVEN YEARS WAL-MART...WMT STOCK HAS NOT GONE HIGHER THAN SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS. THE STOCK SPLIT IN 1999 AND SINCE IT HAS NOT DONE WELL AT ALL. MOST OF THE ASSOCIATES 401K IS WALMART STOCK AND AS THE STOCK GOES DOWN SO DOES THE WORTH OF THE PENSION PLAN. WALMART ASSOCIATES ARE NO LONGER RETIRING WELL OFF. THE COMPANY IS GOING DOWN HILL FAST AND AS THEY SAY THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE HARDER THEY FALL. |
