"George Leppla" > wrote in message
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> 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).

and how is government built?