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Walking into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Fort Worth, Texas, CEO Scott recalls that when Wal-Mart was an underdog, "you could really go after a competitor." Now the company no longer shows comparison-shopping baskets to demonstrate that Wal-Mart has lower prices than competitors. "It just looks like we're picking on people," he says...
...Sundown Rule (any employee or customer request must be addressed before sundown) and other cultural foundations. Walking into a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Fort Worth, Texas, CEO Scott says he misses the old days a little bit; when Wal-Mart was an underdog, "you could really go after a competitor." Now the company no longer shows comparison-shopping baskets to demonstrate that Wal-Mart has lower prices than competitors. "It just looks like we're picking on people," he says. Nevertheless, Wal-Mart is still pummeling the competition. Over the past two years, Kmart filed for bankruptcy, and Ames...
...shopping period, the CUE guide will have company. There’s a new source in town for information about Harvard’s courses, a student-initiated website called “CriticalMass.” But the new website shouldn’t be seen as a competitor. It’s a good complement to the existing guidebook, clearly intended to fill a different role. If students take full advantage of “CriticalMass,” the new site has the potential to provide the candid personal student feedback that the CUE guide cannot. More...
...POKER PLAYER. Say what you will about Lyle Berman--and people have called him a lot of things: a pit bull, an intimidator, a fearsome competitor--but no one has ever accused him of modesty. Of his casino-development company, Lakes Entertainment Inc., Berman once told reporters, "We're the most successful company in Indian gaming." Because of the secrecy surrounding gambling on Indian reservations, it's impossible to know whether that's true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings...
...typically won the BC meet convincingly in recent years, but the Crimson wasn’t as dominant in the field this time. With NCAA high jump champions Dora Gyorffy ’01 and Kart Siilats ’02 now graduated, the Crimson did not have a competitor in the event...