Lee Scott
Lee Scott
american-businessman people
There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.
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You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.
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Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.
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It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
american-businessman communication except managers people personally store visits
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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Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
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In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
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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,
american-businessman businesses employed individual million people small
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.