Introduction to Walmart
In full Walmart, Inc., Walmart earlier Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., American operator of discount store. It is believed to be one of the world's biggest retailers and the world's biggest corporations.
About Walmart
Walmart was established by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas, in the year 1962 and concentrated its early growth in rural areas, thereby evading direct competition with retailing giants like Sears and Kmart.
As it developed, the company acquired new retail formats, including Sam's Club discount warehouses and Wal-Mart Supercenters. Within a decade of beginning the combination grocery and merchandise Supercenters, Wal-Mart had become one of the largest grocers in the United States.
An emphasis on customer attention, cost controls, and efficiencies in its distribution networks supported Wal-Mart to become the greatest retailer in the United States in the year 1990.
Services Offered By Walmart Money Centers
- Check to cash
- Money transfers
- Money orders
- Prepaid debit cards
- Credit cards
- Check to print (online orders only)
- Bill payment
Walmart Or Wal-Mart?
The parent corporation is still warranted the hyphenated Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Though the current corporate logo and trademark is a single word without the punctuation, Walmart.
Some publications, like The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, utilise Wal-Mart. Like the Financial Times, others obey the leader of the company's website, which uses Walmart, as does the new signage on U.S. stores.
Adding to the confusion, many of the company's trucks still bear the hyphenated Wal-Mart name and give the company's website as the hyphenated wal-mart.com, even though the web address has since been changed to walmart.com, without the hyphen.
