Analysis: Fifty years of Walmart

Walmart’s Visitors Center in Arkansas, where the first store was opened by Sam Walton

Half a century ago today Sam Walton opened his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas. George MacDonald examines how the company went on to change the global retail landscape.

 

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