jmcquown wrote:

>
> I beg to differ. Sam Walton's *greedy children* are the ones who turned his
> stores into the massive conglomerates they are today. It was never his
> intention. He wanted his stores to sell items inexpensively, not get one
> over on the consumer and the employees by offering cut-rate Chinese
> merchandise and no benefits to the workers.
>
> Jill
>
>
Thats pretty much what I know too. The old man had a reputation for
being a hard bargainer but believed that suppliers had to survive too.
The kids started beating up suppliers which forced them into continual
cutting mode and then either out of business or off shore.

The unfortunate thing is that the "Walmart method" has become a popular
idea in business as others felt they needed to loose their morals in
order to compete with Walmart.