Pittsburg, California
Pope, Carol
Poulin, André
Price, Robert
Price, Sol
Price Club
Pritchett, Lou
Procter & Gamble Co. (P & G)
Profit, James W.
Progressive Grocer
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The
Public Policy Institute of California
Publix
Quality of Work at Wal-Mart, The (Rosen)
Québec, Canada. See specific cities.
Québec City, Québec
Randolph, Vance
Rasell, Edith
Regency Centers
Remke, Bill
Remke, Mathew
Remke Market
Retail Forward, Inc.
Retail Link
Retail sector
big-box
chain stores
discount stores
grocery stores
Iowa
lean retailing
micro-merchandising
Mom-and-Pop stores
self-service innovation
“superstore,”
variety stores
wages
Wal-Mart effect on community retailers
Wal-Mart and job creation
Wal-Mart market share
See also Labor unions.
Ridgeway, Craig
Riggio, Stephen
Roberts, Greg
Robson, Frank
Robson, Leland S.
Robson, Nick
Rockefeller, John D.
Rodriguez, Michael
Rogers, Arkansas (Wal-Mart No. 1)
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, Ellen
Ross, Brian
Rothbart, Stanley
Rubbermaid
Ruf, John J.
Russell, Erin
Russell, John
Safdie, Moshe
Safeway Stores
Saguenay, Québec
Sainte-Hyacinthe, Québec
St. Pierre, Marc
St. Robert, Missouri
Sam’s Club
Sam’s Associate Handbook
“Sam’s Pledge”
Savannah, Georgia
Schmitt, Wolfgang
Schoewe, Tom
Schwartz, Martin
Scott, H. Lee
background
Town Hall Los Angeles speech
“Twenty-First Century Leadership” speech
as Wal-Mart CEO
as Wal-Mart executive under Walton
Searcy, Arkansas
Sears
Service Employees International Union
Severson, Gary
Shewmaker, Jack
Sierra Club
Simpsons, The (TV show)
Sinegal, James
Sirico, Robert
Smale, John
Smith, Gary
Smith, Jerry
Smith, Sidney
Soderquist, Donald
Solari, Abbot Placid
Southaven, Mississippi
Springfield, Missouri
Standard Oil Co.
Starbucks
Sterling Store
Stewart, Jon
Stone, Kenneth
Strauss, Bill
Supervalu
Symjunas, Rob, Jr.
Tabor, Daniel
Tampa, Florida
Target stores
Tate, John E.
Ten Rules for Building a Business (Walton)
Terrell, Texas (Wal-Mart No. 265)
Tesco
Teustch, Austin
Thomas, Bill
Thriftway
Timothy Plan, The
Tom Thumb stores
Topeka, Kansas
Toys ‘R’ Us
Tremblay, Jean
Trinity United Church of Christ
Twain, Mark
Ulmer, Kenneth C.
United Church of Christ (UCC)
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
Local, Québec City
See also Labor Unions.
United Kingdom, Wal-Mart in
United States Consumer Price Index
United Steelworkers of America
University of Arkansas
Walton family endowment
University of California, Santa Barbara, conference
University of Missouri
Vandercar Holdings Inc.
Vlasic Foods
Vogue magazine
VPI (volume-producing item)
WakeUpWal-Mart.com
Wallace, Jeanne
Walgreen’s
Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism (Lichtenstein, ed.)
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices (film)
Wal-Mart Corporation
business model
business practices. See also Employees, Wal-Mart.
Buy America program
California expansion and site fights
Canadian market
“Chicken Report”
China and
cities, expansion into
community concessions and subsidizing
community impact
community resistance
company cheer
competition. See also Costco; Target.
corporate culture
cost control and, See also Employees, Wal-Mart.
crisis in current performance
customers
development strategy
distribution centers (DCs)
employees. See Employees, Wal-Mart.
environmental issues and
“Every Day Low Prices”
failures at diversifying
faith-based opposition
grocery business
growth
headquarters and upper management. See Bentonville, Arkansas.
history
homage to Sam Walton
Hurricane Katrina and
Information Systems Division
infrastructure investments
inventory
labor unions, war against
market share
media merchandise, sanitizing of
media relations and PR
merchandise, imported. See also China.
multinational markets and store openings
new store openings, rate of
number of stores
pharmacies, refusal to stock Preven
“Plus One” principle
political and charitable contributions
pricing policies
private label
Religious Right and
revenue and sales
as rural store
sales and profit goals
70-type (item number)
shareholder resolutions and
shares of stock
site fights
socio-economic influence
store closings
Supercenters
suppliers and vendors
systems creation at
technological advances
theft (shrinkage) at
“The Ten-Foot Rule,”
upscale merchandising efforts
U.S. trade deficit and
“We Care” program
Wal-Mart Foundation
Wal-Mart Realty
Wal-Mart Watch
Wal*Mart Way, The (Soderquist)
Wal-Mart World (newsletter)
Walton, Alice
Walton, Helen Robson
Walton, James L. “Bud”
Walton, Jesse B.
Walton, Jim
Walton, John
Walton, Nannia Lee Lawrence
Walton, Rob
Walton, Sam[uel Moore]
anti-unionism
Ben Franklin franchises
Bentonville and
“borrowing” ideas from competitors
Buy America program and
as “cheerleader-in-chief”
childhood and young adulthood
death
discounting idea
dog, Ol’ Roy
as employee motivator and icon
family background
flying and
in Forbes richest Americans
frugality
heirs
hunting
John D. Rockefeller comparison
management philosophy
marriage
net worth and family fortune
as Ozarker
P & G and
philanthropy
public image
racial attitudes
retail, love of and skill at
“self-service” concept and
showmanship
store visits
succession as CEO
vendors and
VPI gimmick
Wal-Mart Discount City (No. 1)
Walton Family Centers
Walton’s 5c & 10c stores
work ethic and habits
Walton, Samuel W.
Walton, Thomas Gibson
Walton, William E.
Walton Enterprises
Walton family (current)
car accidents and
education reform, conservative agenda, and
fortune
operating businesses of
philanthropy
Presbyterian Church and
Wal-Mart stock held by
Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Walton Mortgage Company
Walton Trust Company
Washington, Missouri (Supercenter No. 1)
Washington Township, New Jersey
Waters, Maxine
Waveland, Mississippi
Weiner, Anthony D.
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (Carlin)
Whole Foods
Wiebe, Matt
Wild Oats
Williams, Mona
Winn-Dixie
Wong, Kent
Woolco (Woolworth)
Wooster, Ohio
Wright, Jeremiah
Wyatt, Lennie
Yellow Freight Systems
Young, Steve
Zack, Allen
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