Lee Scott
Lee Scott
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Mike has brought to the U.S. operations exactly what was needed during the last couple of years. Mike has the ability and the management confidence to delegate responsibility to the best people in his organization, and develop and promote them. This new assignment will give us the opportunity to apply those skills to our overseas operations.
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We have allowed to exist the idea that only the poorest Americans shop at Wal-Mart. Shame on us. We have people from all walks of life who shop at Wal-Mart stores.
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There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.
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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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People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.
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The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
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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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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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In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.
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If you had all the small businesses who employed 1.5 million people collectively, would there be individual instances of issues?
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You can't take a store that is a struggling store anyway and add a bunch of people and a bunch of work rules that cause you to even be in worse shape.
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These bills discourage companies from offering quality health care at a lower price. Even worse, they won't do a single thing to control the cost of health care for working families or their children.
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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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Are you right to want to make sure that the kids of working families have health coverage, even if it's Medicaid? You bet you are.