It started with the Dixie Mart in Memphis ,TN in the 50's. A club market for government employees. Father in law was a carpenter at Millington Naval Air Station, and we could go as dependents. This is where Sam got his blueprint for a Walmart. All in one, groc, hdwe, pharmacy, etc.
It evolved and time passed to Gibsons, Howards, Woolco, and other regional discounters. Sears and J.C. Penney steady stalwarts. Walmart came up like the others but grew number of stores.
Thru out the South, there were small towns that had people who would give Walmart land if they would put in a store. Then Walmart in its vision saw the greater advantage that the givers had foreseen.
Buy, (and later they lease) larger store sites. Put in a store, then sell or sublease the out parcels to others.
The income from the out parcels more that pays for the stores construction cost. Then turn the Walmart into a Super center. Move across town to better location. Wash, rinse and repeat with larger out parcels
Any idea how many square feet of space Walmart owns free and clear and leased to others now?
Walmart made its money by beating the producers of goods price down to sell for less and still make a healthy profit. You make a product... Would you rather have 20 of your items in 1000 stores nationwide, or 1000 items in 20 stores in 2 adjoining states. We will pay you so much for your product and give you shelf space. Siren song...
But producers are beginning to wise up. Slowly liquidating supplying Walmart at its pricing, and steering your production or go elsewhere and possibly gain? Broke is broke, either way.
Nothing constantly gets better forever.. When you are top dog there is no where to go but down..
Then you are on top of the hill, everyone is shooting at you... Time and tide waits for no massive corp.
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Just went to our new local Walmart last night. We moved in to Kingsport on Monday. It is the biggest and cleanest Walmart I have ever seen. It has 48 self service check out registers. Just got a few things and left. Will explore it more when I can spend the weekend.
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Lastly, do you really want to be in line with some person with two baskets full crap and the cashier is the slowest one out the bunch and you have one item prob coffee in my case -
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When the self service checkouts were first coming on the scene, I was doing blanket wrap freight for a van lines. we hauled these checkout counters, a lot bigger than the ones they have now, out of a company in Jacksonville, Fl, to WM Supercenters. Usually had 4 to 6 checkouts machines per load per store. Always delivered these late evenings. I asked the guys installing if they had heard of any customer resistance to these self serve deals. They told me that the for a time, the store would deliberately short staff the regular check outs, in order to get people to see how much faster they could get out by scanning their own things.
And it seems to have worked.
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