The first retail store that Sam Walton worked in was at a J.C. Penny in Des Moines. Sam’s manager almost fired him and told him to never work in retail; fortunately, Sam decided to take a stick with it. In 1945, Sam got a loan from his father-in-law and bought a Ben Franklin store in Newport Arkansas, which was the first retail store that Sam ever owned. To beat his competitors, Sam would leave at nights and head to Little Rock. In Little Rock, Sam would go to a wholesale hous
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