Walmart, every mention

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▶ 39:08 Shane Parrish He saw what Sam Walton had done with Walmart, taking a concept and spreading it coast to coast. 3 times in the scene

▶ 31:35 Shane Parrish At Walmart, he wouldn't let purchasing agents accept so much as a hot dog from vendors.

▶ 25:50 Anthony Scilipoti When Walmart is telling you that there's a problem with its sales forecast, and Target is struggling, and Lululemon can't sell the same number of pants, and Starbucks is considering to changing some of its pricing and some of its, its…

▶ 25:46 Tracy Britt Cool I mean, Sam Walton at Walmart, he was all about the fundamentals, and he was in a store every week, and, you know, multiple stores every week, focused on how do we deliver for our customers more effectively.

▶ 24:31 Shane Parrish And he built Walmart by growing quietly in concentric circles, staying under the radar, expanding outward from Bentonville without attracting attention from bigger competitors.
▶ 35:42 Shane Parrish He'd watched Walmart destroy local department stores.
▶ 1:07:24 Shane Parrish 65 employees quit immediately, but Walmart followed suit, and so did Kroger.

▶ 0:03 Shane Parrish For Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, it took a lot of hard work, a little genius, and one crucial ingredient, theft, or as he preferred to call it, borrowing.
▶ 26:17 Shane Parrish Sam Walton would adopt them for Walmart, and Jim Senegal would perfect them at Costco, all because Saul Price believed the most important thing a leader could do was teach.
▶ 26:30 Shane Parrish Competition from Walmart, Kmart, and Target is fierce.
▶ 39:14 Shane Parrish Sam's Club had Walmart's deeper pockets, but Saul could never merge with them.

▶ 1:40 Shane Parrish He turned employee loyalty into a competitive moat so deep that Walmart couldn't cross it.
▶ 33:45 Shane Parrish It's the same playbook that Amazon would later use with book publishers or that Walmart used with consumer goods companies.

▶ 1:16:57 Indra Nooyi I remember there was a Walmart senior executive, Greg Foran, who was running North America Walmart, and he was in Kiwi, and he was turning around Walmart North America. 4 times in the scene

▶ 46:44 David Heacock You know, gotten more and more, much better over the years at really differentiating within our, within our brand, and, like, we've actually rolled out some new media with a partner with Kimberly Clark to do it, and, like, we really kind…
▶ 55:06 David Heacock And, um, here I am, we just launched in 505 Walmarts and, um, really have a big retail strategy going forward.
▶ 58:57 David Heacock The customer obviously has to go in and pick it up, and they have to do that, that extra work themselves, but if they're already there, maybe, maybe it's something that they would like to take, but for me also as a brand, we, we now are… 3 times in the scene
▶ 1:03:07 David Heacock So like places like Walmart, Costco and whatnot. 2 times in the scene

▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era.
▶ 11:25 Shane Parrish This virtuous cycle, which Sam Walton and later Jim Senegal would turn into billion-dollar empires at Walmart and Costco, was tested behind a counter in Toronto a century earlier.
▶ 35:50 Shane Parrish No more sales, no more promotions, just like Walmart, except Eaton's wasn't Walmart. 6 times in the scene

▶ 31:43 Shane Parrish It sounded like it's kind of the Walmart strategy, right? 3 times in the scene
▶ 2:02:40 Alfred Lin To anywhere, and they would even pick up something from, I don't know, Bloomingdale's, or from Walmart.

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