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Wal-Mart World : Can the Arkansas giant export its price-cutting culture around the world? It aims to, and global retail markets are headed for a shake-up.(Company Profile)
Wal-Mart does not look or act like a corporate colossus. The company's headquarters in tiny Bentonville, Arkansas, is located directly across the street from Colleen's Beauty Chalet (a modest clapboard house). The main building is little more than a three-story warehouse with a brick facade. Suppliers do business with company "associates" (Wal-Mart's term for employees) in the lobby. On Saturdays, employees gather to listen to sales figures and perform the company cheer, led by senior managers: "Give me a W! Give me an A!," and so on. To symbolize the hyphen between Wal and Mart, everybody wiggles his butt. The scene is so small-town Arkansas, it's a bit hard to believe ...
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