The Washington Post, April 7th, 1992
SAM WALTON was as direct and unglamorous as his business, which consisted mostly of finding out what people wanted and selling it to them at the lowest possible price. Although he was, by the mid-'80s, considered the world's richest man, chances are that if you lived in the urban Northeast you didn't know much about him or his principal works: the hundreds of discount department stores that have helped transform much of small-town America. In fact, he did little to draw attention to himself, unless driving an old pickup truck and continuing to lead a simple Arkansas existence could be consider...
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