Comments on: Pick Yer Bucket

By: S.M.Mehdi Hassan

S.M.Mehdi Hassan — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:48:41 +0000

Last year,I heard that Walmart is coming to India. A big complain against Walmart in USA is that whereever it goes, it destroys other local businesses. It seems very tragic.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:35:19 +0000

1.3 Million employees x “this is what got us here” = Tens of millions of years of ingrained resistance to change!

By: laurence haughton

laurence haughton — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:18:12 +0000

You can also consider that WalMart (like all other high performing organizations) is subject to gravity. It’s called, “regression to the mean.”

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:15:59 +0000

Walmart’s cost cutting was a competitive advantage for them, but like most advantages, it has eroded over time. The competition has either copied WalMart’s ideas or pursued strategies of differentiation, and as low prices have become more common, WalMart is losing it’s customer captivity.

WalMart may end up suffering from a common management bias – relying too much on what worked in the past.

By: COD

COD — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:13:01 +0000

It’s been my experience that WalMart’s supposed great supply chain advantage is mostly about squeezing out cost and not optimizing stock in stores. My rule of Walmart is that if your shopping list exceeds 5 items, the odds of getting all 5 in one trip to WalMart approaches zero.