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  2. History of Walmart - Wikipedia

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    The Walmart chain proper was founded in 1962 with a single store in Rogers, Arkansas, expanding inside Oklahoma by 1968 and throughout the rest of the Southern United States by the 1980s, ultimately operating a store in every state of the United States, plus its first stores in Canada, by 1995.

  3. Walmart - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, Wal-Mart introduced the Neighborhood Market concept with three stores in Arkansas. [50] By 2005, estimates indicate that the company controlled about 20 percent of the retail grocery and consumables business. [51] In 2000, H. Lee Scott became Wal-Mart's president and CEO as the company's sales increased to $165 billion. [52]

  4. Sam Walton - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively.

  5. Inside Walmart’s company seat in Bentonville, a once-sleepy ...

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    A once-sleepy Arkansas city has now become the epicenter of the country’s largest retail empire. Since its 1962 founding, Walmart has not only transformed its headquarters in Bentonville, but ...

  6. Who is the owner of Walmart? Inside the Walton family and ...

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    Since opening in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, Walmart has grown to approximately 10,500 stores and Sam's clubs in 24 countries, according to its corporate website. What started as a small shop has ...

  7. Bentonville, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    The Northwest Arkansas Razorback Regional Greenway, a 36-mile (58 km) primarily off-road mixed use trail connecting the Northwest Arkansas region, runs through Bentonville near Bentonville High School, the Walmart Home Office, and Crystal Bridges on its way to Lake Bella Vista to the north. The Crystal Bridges Trail is a 1 mile (1.6 km) trail ...

  8. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art - Wikipedia

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    Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges.The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails.

  9. Walmart is laying off and relocating hundreds of corporate ...

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    In late April, Walmart announced it would shutter 51 health clinics across Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Texas. The new clinics, which offered doctor, dentist and therapy appointments ...