WalMart Stores Limited was founded in Arkansas in 1962 by Sam Walton, the legendary American retailer. After more than 50 years of development, Wal-Mart has become the world's largest private employer and chain retailers, many times topped the "Fortune" magazine top 500 list and elected the most valuable brand.
WalMart is committed to helping people from all over the world to save money and live better and better, through different platforms such as physical retail stores, online e-stores, and mobile devices. Each week, more than 250 million customers and members visit about 11,000 stores in more than 70 brands in 28 countries and e-commerce sites in 11 countries. The net sales for the fiscal year 2015 (January 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015) amounted to approximately $ 4,857 billion and the total number of employees worldwide was about 2.2 million. Wal-Mart has always been the leader in the retail industry, and more importantly, Wal-Mart has always fulfilled the important mission of this enterprise, which is "to save money for customers and make them better" The
As in the rest of the world, Wal-Mart in China always adhere to the "respect for the individual, customer service, the pursuit of excellence, always integrity," the four faith, focus on a good shop, good service every customer, the company's core mission , To continue to create extraordinary for our customers, members and employees.
Wal-Mart is confident in China's economy and market and is committed to long-term investment and development in China. Wal-Mart entered China in 1996 and opened its first Wal-Mart shopping plaza and Sam's affiliate store in Shenzhen. After 20 years of development in China, we have more than 100,000 employees.
Wal-Mart currently operates a variety of formats and brands in China, including shopping malls, Sam's stores and so on. As of December 31, 2015, Wal-Mart has been in the country's 19 provinces, 2 autonomous regions, four municipalities, 169 cities opened 433 shopping malls, 9 dry warehouse distribution center [2] and 11 fresh food distribution center [ 3].
2015 - 2017, Wal-Mart will increase investment in different business in the Chinese market, plans to add 115 stores, including supermarkets and Sam's stores, is expected to create more than 30,000 jobs. At the same time, Wal-Mart will continue to upgrade existing stores, strengthen food safety, and local suppliers win-win development. Wal-Mart hopes to better adapt to China's new economic normal, to create more jobs, and the development of the Chinese economy at the same time become a trusted consumer trust of corporate citizens.
Sam's membership store
Sam's membership store is the world's top 500 enterprises Wal-Mart's high-end membership store, its name from the retail legend - Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Since April 1983 the first store opened in the city of Midwest, Oklahoma, Sam has been more than 30 years of history. In the early 1990s, Sam began to enter the international market, the development has become the world's largest membership of one of the stores. At present, Sam has more than 800 stores in the world, for more than 50 million people and business members to provide quality shopping experience. China's first Sam's membership store in Shenzhen on August 12, 1996 settled in Shenzhen. At present, Sam has opened 12 stores in China, located in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Dalian, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuhan and Changzhou. In the future, Sam's Club will continue to expand its investment in China to allow more Chinese families to enjoy the quality of life that Sam brings.
Each Sam's Club has an average of more than 20,000 square meters of large shopping space, mainly engaged in various types of daily groceries and department stores. To meet the needs of customers for higher quality merchandise, Sam's Club stores only select the best quality or best-selling brand in the same category, offering more than 4,000 kinds of cost-effective single products, including fresh food, dry goods, home appliances, home, clothing, etc. Category. To meet the needs of customers for higher quality merchandise, Sam's Club stores only select the best quality or best-selling brands in their class, helping members avoid the trouble of picking up their products and saving time and money for their members. Sam's products are mostly large and simple composite packaging, through large quantities of imports to reduce costs. The Sam's Club's location emphasizes convenient transportation, has plenty of parking, and usually offers members with at least 1,500 free parking spaces.
