That’s why we at Wal-Mart are just absolute fanatics about our managers and buyers getting off their chairs here in Bentonville and getting out into those stores. We have twelve airplanes—only one of them a jet, I’m proud to say—in our hangars out at the Rogers, Arkansas, airport, and that’s why they’re there. We stay in the air to keep our ear to the ground. Our whole travel system is really an outgrowth of the way I
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