Biography

In the year, at the age of five, he moved to the city of Springfield, Missouri, where he began to go to school. During the Great Depression, Sam Walton took part in the Family Business in Milk trade, his duties included the milking of cows and the delivery of milk to customers. We had ten or twelve clients who paid ten cents per gallon. The most pleasant thing was that my mother removed the cream and made ice cream.

At the age of seven ... years, Sam Walton began selling a magazine subscription, and from the seventh grade to the end of his college, he was engaged in the delivery of newspapers at home. Also during his studies, he raised rabbits and pigeons for sale. Later, the family moved to a small town of Marshall, Missouri, where Sam was elected the head of the class for several years in a row.

Having joined the ranks of the brothers, Sam made a bet with other boys on which of them will be the first to receive the degree of eagle. At the age of thirteen, Sam Walton becomes the youngest eagle in the history of the scout movement in Missouri of that time. There, Walton graduated from Hikman secondary school - he was on the list of the best students, was the chairman of the student council of self -government and actively participated in the work of many interest clubs, in particular, in the Oratory Club, and was elected a very versatile boy.

Sam entered the University of Missuri, where he was accepted as members of the best student society “Beta aunt Pi [en]”, for many years leading in the University Athletic League. At this time, Sam set himself the goal of becoming the president of the University Student Council of Self -Government. He was elected president of the Honorary Society of senior students, a member of the board of the student association and the president of the senior year, he was the captain and President of the Noben and the Blade, the elite military organization of the training service of officers of the US Reserve.

Shortly before the end of the college, Sam received an offer to work from J. by the beginning of the year, he quit J. Penny and left south, in the vicinity of Tulsa, where he met his future wife Helen Robson. Soon after meeting, in the year, Sam was drafted into the US Army, but because of his heart failures, he was not allowed to be in the rank of lieutenant, and then the captain, Sam is engaged in monitoring compliance with security at aircraft factory and in prisoners of war camps in California and throughout the country.

About a year after the call, February 14, Sam Walton and Helen Robson got married, this happened in the town of Clairmore, Oklahoma. The first shops after the end of the war, Waltones decided to engage in retail trade. The population of the city at that time was a person.

The store worked on the Ben Franklin franchise owned by Butler Brothers. The store began working on September 1. In his first store in Newport, Sam Walton began to work out technologies that later brought the success of Wal-Mart: selling goods at low prices, purchasing goods at low prices directly from the manufacturer, and not from intermediaries, extension of the shopping hours on holidays, etc.

In the fifth year of work, the Walton store became the Ben Franklin chain in the six states. The success of the store attracted attention, and the owner of the premises did not renew the lease, renting a premises for the store to his son. In the spring, the Walton family moved to the town of Bentonville, Arkansas. In the year, Walton opened another store in the town of Feiitetville.

By the year, Walton, along with his younger brother, was opened by 16 stores in the states of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. Walton begins to attract store directors to partners, allowing them to invest their own funds in stores. Between the shops, Walton moved by plane, which he himself controlled. Sam Walton was already 44 years old. The name Wal-Mart was chosen due to a small number of letters-so the signs were cheaper.

C to gg. Sam and Helen Walton provided financial assistance to educational, religious and public organizations. Financed the construction of zoos, libraries, sports facilities. Sam Walton died on April 5 from MILELOMY. Rob Walton became chairman of the board of directors of Wal-Mart. John was the director of the company before his death in the city of Walton's family took five seats in the ten richest people in the United States up to a year.

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