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Walmart: Key Insights and Practical Lessons from the World's Largest Retailer

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Walmart provides a detailed assessment of the world's largest retailer that forever changed the face of retailing. The book examines Walmart's successes, failures, and whether it can stay ahead for the next 50 years. Despite being a source for best practice in procurement, logistics, systems and store format innovation, the retail giant is now facing several issues that affect its future development. Starting from its inception in rural Arkansas in 1962, this objective analysis of Walmart's history addresses the rapid change of retail, including the rise of e-commerce and multi-channel retailing; Walmart International and its 'everyday low prices' philosophy; the saturation of the superstore format, and much more. In a time of rapid change, will the world's largest retailer be able to reconfigure? Walmart provides the necessary insights for retailers, advertisers, other business professionals and students to understand how Walmart became a retail giant, the lessons that can be learned, and what is in store for the future. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kogan Page


Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 24, 2012


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0749462736


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 34


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.55 x 9.13 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,635,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #230 in Business Sales (Books) #533 in Retailing Industry (Books) #800 in Business Marketing


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    • a must read!
Format: Paperback
Most insightful book on Walmart I have ever read! A must read for the Walmart shoppers all the way to the professional analyists and everyone in between.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2012 by Lisa De Nicola
    • How and why Walmart International continues to be "the best positioned retailer in the world"
Format: Paperback
As this book's subtitle suggests, Natalie Berg and Bryan Roberts share "key insights and practical lessons from the world's largest retailer." Ironically, Walmart's globalization initiatives did not kick into gear until after founder Sam Walton was succeeded by David Glass in 1988, 26 years after Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City store in Rogers, Arkansas. What we have in this volume is a reasonably thorough examination of the organization's rapid growth in terms of both domestic and international markets as well as of its dominance of those markets and even of entire brand categories (e.g. it sells more groceries than Kroger and Safeway do...combined). Moreover, if Walmart were a country, it would rank 25th in terms of gross domestic product. It is also the world's largest commercial employer. If the first Walmart Discount City store were viewed as an "acorn," it certainly gave birth to an immense "oak tree," if not an entire "forest." Berg and Roberts focus on major challenges and issues, explaining how Walmart has addressed them to gain and sustain competitive advantage. For example, here are seven of several dozen covered in the book: o How to position ourselves during the rise of consumerism? o How to transition branding to a balance of national and private label? o How to provide cost-effective reader-friendly amenities? o How to use IT to increase operational efficiency and productivity? o How to lower costs by lowering suppliers' costs? o How to derive maximum benefit from global sourcing? o How to accelerate improvement of logistics system? In the Appendix (Pages 217-223), Berg and Roberts provide a timeline of the development of Walton International that began with two small stores in Mexico (1991) until 2011 when WI expanded in the UK, South Africa, the Middle East, and Canada. Does WI have what it takes to reposition for the next 50 years of growth? Berg and Roberts observe, "The answer must be that Walmart has what it takes to succeed, but will need to be nimble, adaptable, and innovative to reconfigure to the new realities of commerce." I agree while presuming to add that, in my opinion, competition will become more intense and of a different nature because those who challenge WI have learned valuable lessons from Wal-Mart Stores under Sam Walton's leadership and they have also learned valuable lessons from what has happened to the company since his retirement as CEO. I assume that WI's leaders know what got the company to where it is now won't get it to where it wants to be in months and years ahead. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2012 by Robert Morris
    • Experts' keen assessment of the world's biggest retailer
Format: Paperback
From its humble beginnings in 1962, Walmart climbed to the top of the retail pyramid, tallying annual sales of more than $400 billion as of its 50th anniversary in 2012. Walmart's relentless pursuit of "Everyday Low Prices" saves shoppers billions, but is it the customers' best friend or the giant that emptied Main Street storefronts? Is it the vendors' top ally because of the volume it buys, or does it squeeze suppliers without relief in its quest to offer the lowest possible prices? Perhaps the answer is a bit of all of the above, according to retail analysts Natalie Berg and Bryan Roberts, who examine how Walmart has forever changed retailing, production and distribution methods, as well as consumer behavior. Today, the chain faces new challenges as the US market becomes saturated, consumer habits evolve and the international landscape changes. Though the authors' prose can be a bit dense, getAbstract recommends this well-researched corporate biography to business historians, retailers, analysts and Walmart shoppers everywhere. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2012 by Rolf Dobelli
    • Five Stars
Good overview and analysis
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2017 by James A Raftery

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