Competition Quote by Sam Walton

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street…

— James Howard Kunstler

The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to…

— Liza Featherstone

“Main Street is dead, which is no news to the families whose families ran family businesses on Main Street. When I returned...I found that…

— Ruth Ozeki

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company…

— George Packer

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in…

— Hillary Clinton

“[Walmart]s largest innovation consists in getting rid of the central Fordist principle of paying the workers enough so that they can afford to buy…

— Steven Shaviro

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

— Bill Cosby

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths…

— Michael Bergdahl

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

— Lee Scott

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards…

— Andy Stern

We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is…

— Mike Duke