Lee Scott
Lee Scott
american-businessman hard
It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
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People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
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The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
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In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
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That's when they become the experts and can help teach the other kids. It's the highlight of my day.
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In a challenging retail environment, I am pleased to report our first year with net earnings in excess of $6 billion and our first-ever quarter with earnings over $2 billion,
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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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If you had all the small businesses who employed 1.5 million people collectively, would there be individual instances of issues?
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If anything, the negative press and the criticism take away the opportunity to feel as good as you can feel about your employment.
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Because in our clippings I see a lot of articles that are very positive about all the stores that are voted by local communities.
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More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.
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Inflation in the U.S. appears to be well under control, ... The only real economic concern I have is that oil prices will erase improvements in employment and real income for an important portion of our customer base.