PS: WalMart is Arkansas. If you want to live Arkansas I would suggest you go see what that culture is like although they are great for bargains and they give their employees junk and they are glad to have it.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:47 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Shopping for a reason "And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it's real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m. Customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items -- baby formula, milk, bread, eggs -- and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when government benefit cards (electronic) get activated and then the check-out starts. And our sales for those first few hours on the first of the month are substantially and significantly higher. "And if you really think about it, the only reason someone gets out in the middle of the night and buys baby formula is that they need it, and they've been waiting for it. Otherwise we are open 24 hours -- come at 5 a.m., come at 7 a.m, come at 10 a.m. But if you are there at midnight, you are there for a reason." [Bill Simon, CEO of Wal-Mart's US business, speaking at a Goldman Sachs Conference, October 2010] Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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