On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:25:34 -0600, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:14:21 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>
>>> There's a SAMS but seems the same.
>>
>> I hope the people who shop at Sam's realize that Sam is Sam Walton of
>> Walmart fame.
>>
>
>I knew that. I have been to the corporate headquarters in Arkansas and
>went to the visitors center which is in the old 5 and 10 that was Sam's
>first store. Very interesting place.
>
>They have a special building on the corporate campus where merchants
>bring their samples to negotiate deals. I didn't get to go in, but I did
>see many harried people toting huge, wheeled cases up and down the steps
>to that building.

Gives you a good idea of how they feel about their prospective
suppliers.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)