Reading Sam Walton's autobiography has had a huge influence on my life, I found it quite inspiring as a teenager. I grew up in Southwest Missouri, and remember

Reading Sam Walton's autobiography has had a huge influence on my life, I found it quite inspiring as a teenager. I grew up in Southwest Missouri, and remember Walmart being the "local" chain, as compared to say, Kmart, their bigger, national competitor. All that said, I do not agree with many of the decisions the company has made sense Sam Walton's departure. I find many of the companies current philosophies to be in direct opposition to those that Sam Walton espoused in his own autobiography.