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Take a nostalgic look back at the products Walmart's first shoppers would have found at what has since become America's biggest retail chain. From sporting goods and lawn mowers to clothing and ...
By 1988, Wal-Mart was the most profitable retailer in the United States, [7] though it did not outsell K-Mart and Sears in terms of value of items purchased until late 1990 or early 1991. By 1988, Walmart was operating in 27 states, having expanded into Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, and Wyoming.
Walmart founder Sam Walton and his wife Helen, on their wedding day, February 14, 1943. At the time, Sam was a management trainee with the J.C. Penney Company. Photo: Courtesy of Walmart
Prices seem to have held pretty steady, with Walmart selling a 200-count bottle of its store brand Equate Complete Multivitamins for just over $9. Courtesy of etsy.com Remington Toaster, $6.97
Called the Wal-Mart Discount City store, it was located at 719 West Walnut Street. He launched a determined effort to market American-made products. Included in the effort was a willingness to find American manufacturers who could supply merchandise for the entire Walmart chain at a price low enough to meet the foreign competition.
[5] [159] The first Walmart Neighborhood Market opened ten years after the first Supercenter opened, but Walmart did not heavily focus on this model until the 2010s. [160] The stores predominantly sells groceries, but also features a modest amount of household items and even general merchandise, in a format of a general stores.
The first Walmart Supercenter, which used a floorplan in the 125,000 sq ft (11,600 m 2) range, was opened in 1988 in Washington, Missouri. [3] As the Supercenter proved to be a much more profitable experiment, Walmart renamed the stores "Wal-Mart's Hypermart USA" in April 1990, and eventually began either converting them to Supercenter ...
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