Wal-Mart Store Expansion in the Arid Lands
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Department
School of Business
Abstract
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. was ranked number one in the world by Fortune 500 based upon revenues of $288,189 billion in 2004. This phenomenal company was first established by Sam Walton in 1962 and when it went public in 1970 it had a total of 18 stores. Now it has grown to over 3,500 stores in the United States alone. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. headquarters are located in Bentonville, AR in the far northwest corner of the state, only 25 miles from the Oklahoma border. This location provides an excellent opportunity to study the economic expansion with respect to arid versus humid states since the Arkansas/Oklahoma border delineates the boundary between these two regions. This study examines whether the Wal-Mart expansion has been uniform throughout the U.S. or slanted more toward the arid states of the west versus the humid states of the east.
First Page
39
Last Page
48
Volume
XXI
Recommended Citation
Britton, C. R., Smith, R. S., & Graff, T. O. (2005). Wal-Mart Store Expansion in the Arid Lands. Forum of the Association for Arid Lands Studies, XXI, 39-48.