Walmart's first-ever store confused retail rivals and shoppers alike, according to Walmart Heritage Group's senior director Alan Dranow.
Courtesy of WalmartDranow said that Walton strived to encourage early Walmart leadership to live"frugal" lives, and he even continued to drive around in his 1979 Ford F-150 custom truck with his hunting dog Old Roy even as Walmart began to expand.But not everyone was impressed with Walton's new crop of stores. Dranow related the story of Arkansas retail executive David Glass.
Glass attended one of the chain's first store opening events, which featured a heap of watermelons and donkey rides for the kids."It was 110 degrees and the watermelons started to pop," Dranow said."All this watermelon juice was running through the parking lot and was mixed with, well — as David said, donkeys do what donkeys do. People were tracking it into the store and it was a real mess."Glass has said that it was one of the worst store openings he'd ever seen.
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