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Article: Walton: it was a wonderful life. (Commentary).(Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton)(Obituary)
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- Mass Market Retailers
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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Sam Walton died at eight in the morning, Central Daylight Time, on Sunday, April 5. He had been ill with bone cancer for over two years, gravely ill for the past five months. Less than two hours later Wal-Mart president and chief executive officer David Glass broadcast the news of Walton's death to Wal-Mart associates at the chain's 1,735 discount stores across America on the Wal-Mart Radio Network, the closed-circuit audio link between the chain's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters and its stores.
By early afternoon the media had the stow, and it became one of the lead items on the network evening news programs. Much of the news that came over the air was ...
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