Lee Scott
Lee Scott
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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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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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You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.
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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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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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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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Wal-Mart Stores did miss their plan as our customer continues to be impacted by higher gas prices and it is difficult to improve our expense leverage in the current environment.
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Or if you have one store manager that makes a bad decision, is that indicative that that is somehow what your company represents? No.
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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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Inflation in the U.S. appears to be well under control, ... The only real economic concern I have is that oil prices will erase improvements in employment and real income for an important portion of our customer base.
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The consumer still seems to us to be very cautious and probably will remain so until we see improvement in employment,
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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.
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Dr. Sturgis said there was a 60 per cent chance of him being all right and we decided to give our baby that chance.
We see that we can be better for communities than we have been in the past.