From Hope to Higher Ground: on Corporations


Wal-Mart is case study in genius of American marketplace

Though often demonized because of its immense size and extraordinary growth, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart is a case study in the genius of the American marketplace. As governor of the state that Wal-Mart calls home, I often found myself in the position of defending it against uninformed and often ill-willed critics.

Wal-Mart has become the largest private sector employer in approximately 49 of our 50 states. And somebody apparently likes this company, since 150 million people a week enter its door.

Labor unions in particular have sought to disparage Wal-Mart as a workplace, despite the fact that the average wage paid to its 46,000-strong Arkansas workforce is some $4.50 higher per hour than the minimum wage. A new store in Chicago scheduled to employ 325 people watched as 25,000 applied.

    Allow me to list three reasons for this retailing behemoths extraordinary success:
  1. Wal-Mart empowers the consumer
  2. An efficient cost structure
  3. An exemplary corporate structure.
Source: From Hope to Higher Ground, by Mike Huckabee, p.166-167 Jan 4, 2007

  • The above quotations are from From Hope to Higher Ground
    12 STOPs to Restoring America's Greatness    , by Mike Huckabee, Jan. 2007.
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