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“There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.”
“And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.”
“Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.”
“So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.”
“More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.”
“Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.”
“We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.”
“One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.”
“And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.”
“You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.”
“I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.”
“We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.”
“Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.”
“Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.”
“I don't think we'll win every election.”
“I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.”
“Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.”
“If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.”
“But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.”
“In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.”