Fired my agent.
Editing the finished book.
Sending out queries.
What do you think?
“The Walmart Way” Not Sam’s Way
Walmart XIII AD
Almost daily, there is mention of Walmart somewhere in the media.
Walmart finds itself up against more lawsuits then ever before and activists are at top of the list of problems that continue to plague Walmart.
From attempts to block the opening of new Super Centers to the individual and group lawsuits that are filed against the corporation, it will be the people, customers and the company’s very own associates who will determine the fate of the aging retailer.
Attempts at redeeming itself publicly and attempts at improving its image are a new way of handling the perception people have of the company. In the past public relations and the media were areas that the company avoided unless there was an extremely negative situation had to answered through the media in some way. Now the corporate offices have decided to defend the company to the extent of taking out full page ads in different areas of the country and designing a web site called Walmartfacts to allow the public access to its’ own view of the wonderful world of Walmart.
A corporation, a company, the as big as life retail behemoth whose founder Sam Walton, is looked at and remembered by many in different ways. Sam was a man who is quoted almost continuously by an assortment of different people and associates. Opinions vary and views on the man and his legacy continue.
The book” The Walmart Decade” by Robert Slater looks at not only the Walmart of today but also has many references to Sam Walton and the way it was. The book “Made in America” by Sam Walton and John Huey is a look at a man that seemed to genuinely care about the people that he more than once said “should be treated as partners;” his associates; his company’s employees who are no longer protected by the founder and his way of “respecting the individual.”
A new book titled The Walmart Way by Don Soderqist is being released on April 21, 2005. It is supposed to be about the Walmart executives. It is already listed on Amazon and although it is from the inside of the corporate and executive offices it is not from inside the stores and I am sure will not deal with the same things I am addressing in this book.
The corporate officers, the directors and the executive officers of the company are business people running a corporation, not Sam Walton. All the books are pro Sam Walton and say much about the man especially as far as the culture that he started.
Anyone attempting to find a company, or a corporation to work for that would appreciate hard work could at one time find it here. A person could take a look at “The Walmart Culture” and that person would be easy to convince that Walmart has it all and will give it all to you if you work hard and treat the customer as number one, according to Sam Walton. It seems, from the inside to be getting further away from that kind of respect and inclusiveness each day.
Today we have “The Walmart Decade “By Robert Slater “How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 company”
You really need to read between the lines.
You would need to understand that Mr. Slater received his information as it is listed at the end of the book.
He did not work in the stores and did not really have access to or the ability to really touch the average associate. I did.
You also have “The Walmart Way” by Don Soderquist. Although the book is inspirational it lacks the insight that is a part of the dying Walmart Culture, inside the stores.
The largest retailer in the country and the world is more than just a retailer, employer and a stock on Wall Street. America’s most admired company is a large part of day-to-day living for the typical American family. It is a very large part of the day-to-day life of Walmart Associates.
From the outside of the stores, there is more than one opinion of the company, its’ suppliers and its’ worth.
From inside there is also more than one opinion, and depending on many factors that determine your position in the Walmart order of things an opinion can be valid as far as Walmart is concerned or an opinion can be an expression of possible hostile aggressive behavior the way Walmart is today.
Among the many files, policies and trade secrets of the number one retailer in our nation and in the world are the people. These people work in the stores. The people that greet the customers and the people that keep the shelves stocked. In many cases, this book reflects the very lives of the people that this company will forever be connected to, like it or not.
This is the warehouse, the truck driver and the system that keeps count on all of it. This is the story that includes a factory in a foreign country that produces the clothing that hangs on the racks in the softlines departments.
This book is a written view from the inside of the stores. It takes an in depth look at the associates, individual stores, salaried management and the executive offices of this company that is listed on tickers of the New York Stock Exchange as wmt.
Synopsis
There is no comparison to this book. It is the only one written by a Walmart associate from the inside.
This book explains what is happening inside the stores.
The book is life, “The Walmart Way” and the process of recovery after being a part of the “cult”.
Chapters
My first experiences with the culture.
6. Ethics
Situations and actions covered up by corporate offices and within the stores by regional executive and members of store management.
10. Open Door
Part of the culture and how it works or doesn’t.
11. Unanswered Questions & Big Brother
Questions brought to me by Wal-mart associates and a few of my own. How they watch us.
12. Gender Discrimination
How gender discrimination affected me and others.
I joined the Class Action Lawsuit.
13. Fluff
Accountability, regulations, policies and direction that is made to look like something is being done when it isn’t.
14. Louisiana
The relocation has major problems. Two of the last three associates have no work upon arrival. My district manager fires me and I am saved through the intervention of Tom Coughlin. Upper management is prone to lying about serious situations. Associates have the same concerns they had in the north it no longer is a happy Wal-mart family. Executive and Corporate communications become strained and the open door backfires repeatedly.
I am interrogated.
Marketing Strategy
Newspaper, radio and television interviews, book signings, Union meetings, speaking engagements as once this book hits there is going to be a great deal of media attention especially if the stock continues to fall or stays stagnant and other retailers continue to gain sales and market share.
Robert Greenwald is producing an anti-Walmart documentary slated for release in November and a part of the book also looks at the production company’s involvement with my ultimate termination.
I intend to promote the book in any way possible blogs and other internet sites.
About the Author
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years.
She has been a union member of the UCFW and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career.
She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work was published during the eighties and nineties in editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida.
Presently Julie has a number of articles at that have been published at ezinearticles.com and has become a retail consultant for a Gerson Lehrman Group Retail Council.
She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild.
Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers. Her experience covers being an hourly associate in many different job positions with Walmart beginning in May of 1998 and she has been a salaried member of management with Walmart since January 25, 2002. During her career with Walmart six out of six adults in her family have at one time or another been employed by Walmart five as hourly associates. Presently two are still employed with Walmart.
My Company Contacts
Lee Scott: CEO Chief Executive Officer since 2000
Current
Emails and Phone
Tom Coughlin: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division
Board of Directors
Retired
Emails and Phone
Michael T. Duke:
Executive Vice President and President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division (USA) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Current Emails and Phone
David Glass Vice President and President and CEO of Walmart Stores Division, Board of Directors Emails
Jim Hayworth: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division
Terminated
Emails and Phone
John T. Walton: A letter sent to Colorado no reply as yet.
Mr. Walton is the Chairman of True North Partners, L.L.C., which holds investments in technology companies. He has been a member of Wal-Mart's Board since 1992.
Mike Huffaker: Divisional Senior Vice President
Emails and Phone
Mary Lockridge: Mike Huffaker’s Assistant
Emails
Ed Nagy: Divisional Senior Vice President
Emails and Phone
Jenny Jones Assistant to Ed Nagy
Emails and Phone
Lawrence Jackson: People Division President
Emails
Georgia Sherrill: People Manager: Mike Duke’s Office
Emails and Phone
Alan Harrbaugh Regional Personnel
Meeting, Emails, Phone
Tammy Scheuerell: Regional Personnel
Meeting, Emails, Phone
Larry Ezzell: Regional Personnel, District Manager
Emails, Phone
Wally Davidson: Co manager, Store Manager,
Regional Personnel Manager
First Store, Emails Phone
Robert Hayes Regional Personnel
Emails, Phone
Greg Riddle Regional Personnel
Emails, Phone
Ronny Hayes: Regional Vice President
Emails, Phone
Todd Harrbargh: Regional Vice President, Last in California with Walmart.com
In person…emails
Mike Quinn: Regional Trainee, Regional Vice President
`In person meeting, emails, phone
Jerry Neal: Regional Vice President
In person, emails, phone
Paul Busby Regional Vice President
Meeting in person, emails, phone
Arthur Emmanuel: Regional Vice President, Divisional Vice President of Specialty Divisions, Board of Directors, “Wal-mart Associate in Critical Need Trust Fund”
In person, emails, phone
James Pike District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Mark Dennison District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Stan Green District Manager
In person emails, phone
Leslie District Manager
Emails, phone
Greg Sharp District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Mary District Assistant
In person, emails, phone
Houston Hollinger
District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Chad Edwards District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Jared jeannsome Corporate Services
Emails and phone.
There are others many were emails, phone conversations, meetings.
I have met numerous Regional Trainers and many others at the regional and district levels that I only know the first name of. This does not include the lists of store managers, co managers, assistant managers, or other district managers and district assistants I have contacted and worked with.
Julie Pierce
Editing the finished book.
Sending out queries.
What do you think?
Walmart Associate Handbook (Unauthorized)
“The Walmart Way” Not Sam’s Way
Walmart XIII AD
Almost daily, there is mention of Walmart somewhere in the media.
Walmart finds itself up against more lawsuits then ever before and activists are at top of the list of problems that continue to plague Walmart.
From attempts to block the opening of new Super Centers to the individual and group lawsuits that are filed against the corporation, it will be the people, customers and the company’s very own associates who will determine the fate of the aging retailer.
Attempts at redeeming itself publicly and attempts at improving its image are a new way of handling the perception people have of the company. In the past public relations and the media were areas that the company avoided unless there was an extremely negative situation had to answered through the media in some way. Now the corporate offices have decided to defend the company to the extent of taking out full page ads in different areas of the country and designing a web site called Walmartfacts to allow the public access to its’ own view of the wonderful world of Walmart.
A corporation, a company, the as big as life retail behemoth whose founder Sam Walton, is looked at and remembered by many in different ways. Sam was a man who is quoted almost continuously by an assortment of different people and associates. Opinions vary and views on the man and his legacy continue.
The book” The Walmart Decade” by Robert Slater looks at not only the Walmart of today but also has many references to Sam Walton and the way it was. The book “Made in America” by Sam Walton and John Huey is a look at a man that seemed to genuinely care about the people that he more than once said “should be treated as partners;” his associates; his company’s employees who are no longer protected by the founder and his way of “respecting the individual.”
A new book titled The Walmart Way by Don Soderqist is being released on April 21, 2005. It is supposed to be about the Walmart executives. It is already listed on Amazon and although it is from the inside of the corporate and executive offices it is not from inside the stores and I am sure will not deal with the same things I am addressing in this book.
The corporate officers, the directors and the executive officers of the company are business people running a corporation, not Sam Walton. All the books are pro Sam Walton and say much about the man especially as far as the culture that he started.
Anyone attempting to find a company, or a corporation to work for that would appreciate hard work could at one time find it here. A person could take a look at “The Walmart Culture” and that person would be easy to convince that Walmart has it all and will give it all to you if you work hard and treat the customer as number one, according to Sam Walton. It seems, from the inside to be getting further away from that kind of respect and inclusiveness each day.
Today we have “The Walmart Decade “By Robert Slater “How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 company”
You really need to read between the lines.
You would need to understand that Mr. Slater received his information as it is listed at the end of the book.
He did not work in the stores and did not really have access to or the ability to really touch the average associate. I did.
You also have “The Walmart Way” by Don Soderquist. Although the book is inspirational it lacks the insight that is a part of the dying Walmart Culture, inside the stores.
The largest retailer in the country and the world is more than just a retailer, employer and a stock on Wall Street. America’s most admired company is a large part of day-to-day living for the typical American family. It is a very large part of the day-to-day life of Walmart Associates.
From the outside of the stores, there is more than one opinion of the company, its’ suppliers and its’ worth.
From inside there is also more than one opinion, and depending on many factors that determine your position in the Walmart order of things an opinion can be valid as far as Walmart is concerned or an opinion can be an expression of possible hostile aggressive behavior the way Walmart is today.
Among the many files, policies and trade secrets of the number one retailer in our nation and in the world are the people. These people work in the stores. The people that greet the customers and the people that keep the shelves stocked. In many cases, this book reflects the very lives of the people that this company will forever be connected to, like it or not.
This is the warehouse, the truck driver and the system that keeps count on all of it. This is the story that includes a factory in a foreign country that produces the clothing that hangs on the racks in the softlines departments.
This book is a written view from the inside of the stores. It takes an in depth look at the associates, individual stores, salaried management and the executive offices of this company that is listed on tickers of the New York Stock Exchange as wmt.
Synopsis
There is no comparison to this book. It is the only one written by a Walmart associate from the inside.
This book explains what is happening inside the stores.
The book is life, “The Walmart Way” and the process of recovery after being a part of the “cult”.
Chapters
- Where is Sam?
- Doing It All “The Walmart Way”
My first experiences with the culture.
- The Cult
- Alabama
- The Culture
6. Ethics
Situations and actions covered up by corporate offices and within the stores by regional executive and members of store management.
- Office Politics
- New Hampshire
- Propaganda & Benefits
10. Open Door
Part of the culture and how it works or doesn’t.
11. Unanswered Questions & Big Brother
Questions brought to me by Wal-mart associates and a few of my own. How they watch us.
12. Gender Discrimination
How gender discrimination affected me and others.
I joined the Class Action Lawsuit.
13. Fluff
Accountability, regulations, policies and direction that is made to look like something is being done when it isn’t.
14. Louisiana
The relocation has major problems. Two of the last three associates have no work upon arrival. My district manager fires me and I am saved through the intervention of Tom Coughlin. Upper management is prone to lying about serious situations. Associates have the same concerns they had in the north it no longer is a happy Wal-mart family. Executive and Corporate communications become strained and the open door backfires repeatedly.
I am interrogated.
Marketing Strategy
Newspaper, radio and television interviews, book signings, Union meetings, speaking engagements as once this book hits there is going to be a great deal of media attention especially if the stock continues to fall or stays stagnant and other retailers continue to gain sales and market share.
Robert Greenwald is producing an anti-Walmart documentary slated for release in November and a part of the book also looks at the production company’s involvement with my ultimate termination.
I intend to promote the book in any way possible blogs and other internet sites.
About the Author
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years.
She has been a union member of the UCFW and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career.
She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work was published during the eighties and nineties in editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida.
Presently Julie has a number of articles at that have been published at ezinearticles.com and has become a retail consultant for a Gerson Lehrman Group Retail Council.
She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild.
Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers. Her experience covers being an hourly associate in many different job positions with Walmart beginning in May of 1998 and she has been a salaried member of management with Walmart since January 25, 2002. During her career with Walmart six out of six adults in her family have at one time or another been employed by Walmart five as hourly associates. Presently two are still employed with Walmart.
My Company Contacts
Lee Scott: CEO Chief Executive Officer since 2000
Current
Emails and Phone
Tom Coughlin: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division
Board of Directors
Retired
Emails and Phone
Michael T. Duke:
Executive Vice President and President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division (USA) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Current Emails and Phone
David Glass Vice President and President and CEO of Walmart Stores Division, Board of Directors Emails
Jim Hayworth: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division
Terminated
Emails and Phone
John T. Walton: A letter sent to Colorado no reply as yet.
Mr. Walton is the Chairman of True North Partners, L.L.C., which holds investments in technology companies. He has been a member of Wal-Mart's Board since 1992.
Mike Huffaker: Divisional Senior Vice President
Emails and Phone
Mary Lockridge: Mike Huffaker’s Assistant
Emails
Ed Nagy: Divisional Senior Vice President
Emails and Phone
Jenny Jones Assistant to Ed Nagy
Emails and Phone
Lawrence Jackson: People Division President
Emails
Georgia Sherrill: People Manager: Mike Duke’s Office
Emails and Phone
Alan Harrbaugh Regional Personnel
Meeting, Emails, Phone
Tammy Scheuerell: Regional Personnel
Meeting, Emails, Phone
Larry Ezzell: Regional Personnel, District Manager
Emails, Phone
Wally Davidson: Co manager, Store Manager,
Regional Personnel Manager
First Store, Emails Phone
Robert Hayes Regional Personnel
Emails, Phone
Greg Riddle Regional Personnel
Emails, Phone
Ronny Hayes: Regional Vice President
Emails, Phone
Todd Harrbargh: Regional Vice President, Last in California with Walmart.com
In person…emails
Mike Quinn: Regional Trainee, Regional Vice President
`In person meeting, emails, phone
Jerry Neal: Regional Vice President
In person, emails, phone
Paul Busby Regional Vice President
Meeting in person, emails, phone
Arthur Emmanuel: Regional Vice President, Divisional Vice President of Specialty Divisions, Board of Directors, “Wal-mart Associate in Critical Need Trust Fund”
In person, emails, phone
James Pike District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Mark Dennison District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Stan Green District Manager
In person emails, phone
Leslie District Manager
Emails, phone
Greg Sharp District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Mary District Assistant
In person, emails, phone
Houston Hollinger
District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Chad Edwards District Manager
In person, emails, phone
Jared jeannsome Corporate Services
Emails and phone.
There are others many were emails, phone conversations, meetings.
I have met numerous Regional Trainers and many others at the regional and district levels that I only know the first name of. This does not include the lists of store managers, co managers, assistant managers, or other district managers and district assistants I have contacted and worked with.
Julie Pierce
