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“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.”

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I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitive.

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We've done both. We can do both. We can raise the quality and still have Walmart prices.

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