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Walmart FlipKart: Walmart’s Biggest Deal Ever

The Walmart FlipKart deal gives Walmart a huge presence in India.  Walmart purchases 77% of FlipKart for $16 billion.  To make it simple think of FlipKart as India’s Amazon.  The competition between Amazon and Walmart continues to increase.

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Walmart CEO Quotes

  • “First, we will be a customer-driven company.  We’ve always said the customer is our boss and we’ll make decisions based on how we can serve them better.” ~Don McMillon,  CEO of Walmart.
  • “Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.” ~ Sam Walton, Supply Chain Expert.
  • “We’re going to make shopping with us faster, easier and more enjoyable. We’ll do more than just save customers money and you, our associates, will make the difference. Looking ahead, we will compete with technology, but win with people. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.” ~Don McMillon
  • “There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”  ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart.
  • “I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.” ~ Mike Duke, former Walmart CEO
  • “One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn’t change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.” ~ Lee Scott, former Walmart CEO and VP of Logistics.
  • “First, we will be a customer-driven company.  We’ve always said the customer is our boss and we’ll make decisions based on how we can serve them better.” ~Don McMillon,  CEO of Walmart.
  • “What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s thing about it.’  We make a decision.  Then we act on it.” ~Sam Walton, created the Walmart Supply Chain.
  • “The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want” ~ Sam Walton, Supply Chain Guru.
  • “It’s interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.” ~ Mike Duke
  • “I learned a long time ago that exercising your ego in public is definitely not the way to build an effective organization.”  ~ Sam Walton

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.” ~Sam Walton

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“You can learn from everybody.” ~Sam Walton

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“There is only one boss – the customer.  And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ~Sam Walton

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“Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.” ~Sam Walton

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