Walmart Inside Out: From Stockboy to Stockholder - Softcover

Loveless, Ron

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9781935043416: Walmart Inside Out: From Stockboy to Stockholder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935043412 ISBN 13: 9781935043416

Publisher: Stephens Pr Llc, 2011

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When you're the largest and most successful company in the world, you've got a big "target" on your back. Critics hate it. Shoppers love it. Is Walmart the evil empire or low-price savior? There's never been a book as uniquely positioned to answer that question. Until now. Author Ron Loveless was there from the start. Actually, before the start. Born to a welfare-supported family in Hiwassee, Arkansas (population 98), Ron and Walmart are inextricably joined at the hip. His mother cleaned house for the man everyone called "Mr. Sam" long before the first Walmart opened its doors. Chronicling Ron's rise from stock boy to senior vice president (or in Ron's words, from "outhouse to penthouse"), Walmart Inside Out gives readers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the corporate giant from a uniquely-balanced perspective. By turns enlightening, entertaining and endearing, Walmart Inside Out is written in an amiable, down-home style that feels like you're sitting on the author's porch, sharing stories and a cool drink on a gentle Arkansas night.

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About the Author:

Ronald Leroy Loveless graduated from Bentonville High School in 1960, served four years in the U.S. Air Force and accepted a job with Walmart as a stock boy in 1964. He rose steadily through the Walmart operations ranks, achieving senior vice president status in 1983. Along the way,he was appointed general manager of the Sam's Club operations. Ron left the company in 1986 to pursue interests in the entertainment industry.

Review:

"What a great read!!! When I'm not reading scripts, budgets or production reports during my 50 plus years as a film and television producer, I've loved reading business books. I have an insatiable yearning to know what makes people and businesses succeed. I have never enjoyed a book as much as Ron Loveless' WALMART INSIDE OUT. His extraordinarily personal overview of retailing, the genius of Sam Walton and the story of the building of the most successful retailer in the world, stems from his unique perspective of "stock boy to stockholder". I would heartily recommend this book to anyone who wants to do business with Walmart or for those who just want a funny, factual, fabulously enjoyable and touching read." -- S. Bryan Hickox, Seven-time Emmy winning producer, director, and writer

"My love for reading is my excuse for being a "book skimmer". With the exception of ATLAS SHRUGGED, "WALMART INSIDE OUT" is the first book I've read `word for word' over the past thirty years. Ron Loveless made me feel like I was actually experiencing what he saw, felt and lived as he rose from the boy caught stealing at Sam's pre-Walmart store to the young man Sam Walton asked to start his Sam's Club Division. If you enjoy a good laugh...you will roar. If you are unafraid to cry.....bring tissues. And if you like movies like `It's a Wonderful Life'....get ready for a story that will warm your heart and remind you of the things you like best about the `American Dream'. And if you like it `warts and all'.....you will hear from a fellow sinner who understands that life is a series of defeats and victories and, in the end, we all just want to leave our little corner of the world a little better than we found it. Ron, you turned yourself inside out for those blessed enough to experience your corner and for that I am eternally grateful." -- Ed Watkins, Founder, Graduate America Priority 1 and President, WinningEndeavors.com

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