On 2/8/2015 9:27 AM, William wrote:
> just curious Jill, what arguement did your group use to successfully
> block Wally's move on to the island? A small town council near my
> house refused to allow Wally World in a few years ago and what did
> Wally do? Instead of one SuperCenter they built three surrounding the
> town! The world's largest capitalist pig marches forward...the 800
> pound gorilla of retailing. Can you believe K-Mart did'nt even notice
> those country bumpkins back in the eighties.
>
> William

I worked in management at Kmart back in the late 70's and early 80's and
they were very aware of Walmart. They even had a committee to study
Walmart and a lot of their recommendations about display and
merchandising and distribution were implemented.

Kmart would have been successful competing with Walmart except that the
upper management changed from marketing people to people with accounting
backgrounds. When the bean-counters took over, things started going
downhill fast. Walmart was always run by people whose background was in
marketing... and the bean counters were no match.

You build a business from the front door in (from the customer's point
of view), not from the back office out (the accounting management point
of view).

George L