Lee Scott
Lee Scott
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The soaring cost of health care in America cannot be sustained over the long term by any business that offers health benefits to its employees.
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Our size causes us, when we do something inappropriate, which is usually done out of stupidity, to come across as being done out of arrogance.
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Because in our clippings I see a lot of articles that are very positive about all the stores that are voted by local communities.
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If anything, the negative press and the criticism take away the opportunity to feel as good as you can feel about your employment.
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More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.
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There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.
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Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.
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So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.
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And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
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You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.
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Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.
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Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.
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It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
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I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.