Lee Scott
Lee Scott
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One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.
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And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.
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Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.
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Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.
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If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.
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I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.
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But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.
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Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
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I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.
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In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
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We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
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I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
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We were devastated. We were asking him all the possibilities - was there anything at all that could be done? - and we said we would rather have a second opinion.
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The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.