I couldn't believe the announcement in Walmart yesterday (Christmas Eve) that the store would be closing at 6PM. I'm like what??? Maybe I heard wrong, cuz that sounds a bit ridiculous to me, for the nation's largest chain. If they were doing poorly, you'd think they'd stay open late. It's not like they pay much in salaries or anything to keep the usual 3 registers open.
That's a holdover from when Sam Walton was alive. He believed in family values at holiday time. What he said was the law at Wal*Mart and I guess MAYBE his kids still want that followed. (His family's value in the stock of Wal*Mart is worth about $130 billion today).
