You seem to have a bit of understanding of what happened internally at walmart with walmart.com in the early days. Walmart.com is still based out of California

You seem to have a bit of understanding of what happened internally at walmart with walmart.com in the early days. Walmart.com is still based out of California (Menlo Park I believe) even though the company was brought back into the Walmart Inc. many years ago. The original "walmart online" folks weren't web developers (Visual Basic coders) and really had a tough time understanding the request/response nature of the web (although they had no UX or QA people either, which led to other issues). The Arkansas/California issues you talked about also stemmed from jealousy. There were stories of the associates in CA having pool tables, foosball tables, catered food, etc. Meanwhile, in AR the associates had extremely old PCs, old software, required to work long hours, etc.