Comments on: Wal-Mart Disappoints, But Orphan’s Visa Case Points to Opportunities for Pro-Life Movement http://realcurrents.blogsome.com/2006/03/05/wal-mart-disappoints-but-orphans-visa-case-points-to-opportunities-for-pro-life-movement/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:08:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Gordon http://realcurrents.blogsome.com/2006/03/05/wal-mart-disappoints-but-orphans-visa-case-points-to-opportunities-for-pro-life-movement/#comment-30 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:45:23 +0000 http://realcurrents.blogsome.com/2006/03/05/wal-mart-disappoints-but-orphans-visa-case-points-to-opportunities-for-pro-life-movement/#comment-30 Here's a good <a href="http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/9a2006gst.asp" rel="nofollow">article</a> discussing the change in Wal-Mart's philosophy. Sam Walton built Wal-Mart as an aggressive but modest company built up of normal, hard-working folks. If they start talking about how they "need" to move out of Bentonville (Arkansas), to a headquarters in a big city "appropriate" for a large corporation, we'll know the philosophy has really sunk in. This is what Boeing did a few years back, leaving their humble headquarters near their factories in Washington state and moving to Chicago, a huge distraction (or smoke-screen) during a period in which they were caught up in one big management scandal after another. Here’s a good article discussing the change in Wal-Mart’s philosophy. Sam Walton built Wal-Mart as an aggressive but modest company built up of normal, hard-working folks.

If they start talking about how they “need” to move out of Bentonville (Arkansas), to a headquarters in a big city “appropriate” for a large corporation, we’ll know the philosophy has really sunk in. This is what Boeing did a few years back, leaving their humble headquarters near their factories in Washington state and moving to Chicago, a huge distraction (or smoke-screen) during a period in which they were caught up in one big management scandal after another.

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