Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Columns

Welcome to the 46th installment of The Wal-Mart Weekly, a column dedicated to bringing you insight, wit, facts, results, opinions and just a bit of everything else when it comes down to a very hot topic these days: Wal-Mart.

In the last edition of The Wal-Mart Weekly, I took a look at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)’s consumer experience regarding the “processing” of customers efficiently. Wal-Mart churns out a world-leading amount of retail sales every month. Still, my experience with the way it handles customers — from inventory levels to paying for merchandise — still needs a lot of work.

This week, I’ll be turning out a two-part series on a large even that occurred in St. Louis, Missouri last week. Wal-Mart’s CEO, H. Lee Scott, delivered quite a note to about 7,000 of his U.S. managers last week. The meeting referred to Wal-Mart as the “Company of the Future.” Was it lip service or a milestone of change in Scott’s upcoming tenure?

Continue reading The Wal-Mart Weekly: Visions of the company of the future — Part 1

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