Trent Shipley wrote:
Actually, that's not really fair. There have been real advances in the technology of retail in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and I expect more in the 21st.OK - I should have said "in a purely traditional sector". By comparison to MS and Cisco etc who leveraged new stuff, Wal-Mart had to create their empire in retail - the other oldest profession...
How Wal-Mart has used centralised IT is ground-breaking, in a time when their competitors were distributing their IT. Their near-future proposals (eg implementing cheap chips instead of barcodes) could push this even further.
Cheers
Russell C.
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