The funny thing is, everybody at Wal-Mart knows that I’ve fought all these technology expenditures as hard as I could. All these guys love to talk about how I never wanted any of this technology, and how they had to lay down their life to get it. The truth is, I did want it, I knew we needed it, but I just couldn’t bring myself to say, “Okay, sure, spend what you need.” I always questioned everything. It was important to me to make them think that maybe the technology wasn’t as good as they thought it was, or that maybe it really wasn’t the end-all they promised it would be. It seems to me
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