It would be so easy to clean up the image of the company. Over the course of four years I made every attempt to explain to the corporate offices the reason the company was beginning to look so bad.

The downfall of this company will be the loss of the dedicated associate base it originally had when Sam Walton was still alive.

Obviously, although I spent all of my work days among the hundreds and thousands of Wal-mart associates working in the stores the corporate officers did not think it could be I knew something they didn