沃爾瑪(Wal-Mart)是由美國零售業(yè)的傳奇色彩人物山姆沃

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BackgroundinformationPart2warm-upPart3TextOrganizationPart4globalreadingPart5LanguageStudyThediscountking:SamMooreWaltonSamnotonlymakesyoudreambigbutinspiresyoutofollowyourdreamsHowmuchdoyouknowaboutWal-Mart?沃爾瑪（Wal-Mart）是由美國零售業(yè)的傳奇色彩人物山姆沃爾頓創(chuàng)建的。1951年，農(nóng)民出身的山姆沃爾頓在美國中西部本頓威爾小鎮(zhèn)盤下第一家雜貨店，至1960年已在本頓威爾小鎮(zhèn)周圍地區(qū)開設(shè)了15家商店，年?duì)I業(yè)總額達(dá)到140萬美元。當(dāng)時(shí)正值折扣店連鎖經(jīng)營理念在美國零售業(yè)萌芽發(fā)展，山姆沃爾頓經(jīng)過兩年時(shí)間的考察調(diào)研，毅然從雜貨店轉(zhuǎn)向百貨業(yè)，于1962年在阿肯色州羅杰斯城開辦了第一家名為“Wal-Mart”（沃爾瑪）百貨商店，并打出了“售價(jià)最低”“保證滿意”的企業(yè)經(jīng)營理念和對(duì)顧客的承諾。

從此以后，沃爾瑪不斷開店擴(kuò)張，1990年成為美國第一大零售商。1991年沃爾瑪在墨西哥城開業(yè)，開始進(jìn)入海外市場(chǎng)后、先后進(jìn)入波多黎各、加拿大、阿根廷、巴西、中國、德國、韓國和英國市場(chǎng)，經(jīng)過短短的10年，2001年的年銷售總額達(dá)2198.1億美元，一躍成為世界最大的零售商和世界最大的企業(yè)。

沃爾瑪于1996年進(jìn)入中國市場(chǎng)，至2005年底已在中國開設(shè)了52家大型連鎖超市。Warm-upactivityFormgroupsofthreeorfourtodiscusstherichestpeopleyouhaveknownandtelleachotherwhatvaluesthesepeopleholddear.Possibleanswerforyou:Greatpeoplearebright,creativeandenergetic,andsharethefollowingvalues:

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