See where Walmart began. Walton's 5 -10 in Bentonville, AR! Join us as we tour the original Walmart Store and the Walmart Museum. The Huge Retail Store company was founded by brothers Sam and James "Bud" Walton in Arkansas in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. As of October 31, 2022, Walmart has 10,586 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 46 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, and as Flipkart Wholesale in India.
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The Walmart Museum is as much a part of Walmart’s history as the exhibits and artifacts that it houses. First opened in 1990, the museum was known as the Walmart Visitor Center. But as times changed and the term "Visitor Center" came to refer more to regional, state, and local tourism offices. Today, The Walmart Museum carries on the mission it always has: To inspire, engage, and educate our visitors about Walmart’s heritage - our culture, history, and brand.
In 1950, the Walton family - Sam and Helen, sons, Rob, John, and Jim, and daughter Alice Walton - moved to Bentonville in northwest Arkansas from the eastern side of the state. According to Sam, the town was small enough to satisfy Helen’s need for small-town living.
Moving to Bentonville allowed Sam to purchase Luther Harrison’s Variety Store on the town’s central square. It was Sam’s second store, but the first to bear the Walton name. A Ben Franklin five-and-dime franchise, it was right next door to a space occupied by a barber shop - space that Sam acquired in 1951. Sam followed this expansion into the space next door with a remodeling sale that established Walton’s 5&10 as the huge success Sam knew it could be.
Today, visitors to The Walmart Museum can see the original tin ceiling tiles from Harrison’s Variety Store as well as the original red and green tiles that Sam laid down prior to the famous remodeling sale. If you look closely, you can see that the red and greens don’t all exactly match. Sam, you see, had been offered a better price on the batch of tiles if he accepted them “as is”. Sam knew that saving money on expenses meant he could charge lower prices, saving his customers money so they could live better.
Also, Visit the lab at 240 S. Main St, Bentonville, AR and find on the 1st floor of the Ledger building.
For more information on the Walmart museum and 5 & 10:
www.walmartmuseum.com/
For more information On Walmart:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
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