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Where and when was the first walmart built? |
I know Sam Walton but i forgot where and when. Building on the answers above Walton was born in Kingfisher, Okla. on March 29, 1918. While attending the University of Missouri at Columbia, Walton delivered papers, waited tables and worked at a five-and-dime store. In 1945 with a $25,000 loan from his father-in-law, Walton opened his first store -- a Ben Franklin arts and craft store in Newport, Ark. Walton and his brother, James, owned 15 Ben Franklin franchises by the early '60s. Walton thought he could bring lower prices to rural towns and proposed to open bigger stores in those areas, but his suggestion was turned down by Ben Franklin executives. Acting on his vision of providing inexpensive goods to small-town markets, Walton soon opened his first Wal-Mart in 1962 in Rogers, Ark. By 1977, Illinois became the tenth state to have a Wal-Mart. By 1991, a year before Walton's death, Wal-Mart first opened an international store in Mexico City. As of July 2004, Wal-Mart had 1,409 stores in the United States, 1,562 Supercenters (a Wal-Mart and grocery store combined), 539 Sam's Clubs (a warehouse discount store) and 1,506 international Wal-Mart stores. It was also the largest private employer in the United States. Batesville Arkansas probably Japan; I hate walmart and my daughter is a manager there In 1962, the first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas. By 1967, the company grew to 24 stores across the state of Arkansas, and had reached $12.6 million in sales, and by 1968, the company opened its first stores outside of Arkansas in Sikeston, Missouri and Claremore, Oklahoma. |
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