On 2/8/2015 10:02 AM, Pico Rico wrote:
> "George Leppla" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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?
>
>
On lies.

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