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It might be difficult to overstate the impact Sam Walton experienced on American business, specifically retailing. The standalone package stores he pioneered have quite basically changed the nation's landscape. His improvements in supply-chain management and circulation totally reshaped the partnership between suppliers and merchants, and, generally, took wholesalers from the equation. His insistence on low prices altered customers objectives of what they have to cover everything from socks to soda. Like few business leaders before or since, Sam Walton altered the world.Saturday, August 14, 1964, was a broiling hot day in Harrison, Arkansas - however the high temperature was the last thing on Sam Walton's head. For the 46-year-old Walton, this was a big day: the grand beginning of his second Wal-Mart. He was going to make damn sure it was a big success. He'd planned everything. Within the parking whole lot, he'd experienced two truckloads of watermelons delivered and employed a donkey to provide rides for the youngsters. He going outside to greet his first customers. What he noticed would make most internet marketers lose their cool: The watermelons experienced burst, and donkey dung littered the whole lot. Walton's response was emblematic of his ability to rise above any problem. He overlooked the clutter, smiled, walked up to the crowd, caught up out his hands, and said, "Welcome to Wal-Mart." That give attention to customers is Walton's leading leadership lessons. But there are many others, beginning with his obsession with low prices - just the first rung on the ladder in a quest to deliver unbeatable value.
