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Article: Wal-Mart celebrates 50th Sam's Club Unit. (Commentary).
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- Mass Market Retailers
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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Wal-Mart Stores, a retailer that has become used to celebrating, threw a big party for itself earlier this month, inviting employees, friends and vendors to the opening of the 50th Sam's Wholesale Club, in Springfield, Mo. And quite a party it was.
In all, some 600 guests showed up, along with thousands of new Sam's members. Sam Walton was there, of course, telling both employees and vendors that the company couldn't have done it without them--and convincing them that it was true. Both Jack Shewmaker, who usually comes to Sam's openings, and David Glass, who usually does not, were there; the latter a bit the worse for wear, having recently broken a foot in a fall ...