Lee Scott
Lee Scott
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I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.
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In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
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We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
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I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
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The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.
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We did not become one of the most successful companies in the world by doing things the same way for 44 years. We have succeeded by sticking to our core values while always looking to improve.
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The planned square footage growth for the coming year represents approximately 46 million square feet of new retail space, which will be the largest square footage increase in the company's history and a 9 percent increase over the fiscal 2002 total,
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You can't sell for less if you're spending more,
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The consumer still seems to us to be very cautious and probably will remain so until we see improvement in employment,
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We were devastated. We were asking him all the possibilities - was there anything at all that could be done? - and we said we would rather have a second opinion.
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Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.
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And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.
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One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
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I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.