18 Quotes by Tom Schoewe

We have just under 1,000 projects in the pipeline for the U.S. alone, or three years worth of future growth planned. We'll do it through new stores, through acquisitions and by growing sales in our existing stores.

When Wal-Mart enters a market, we compete with some businesses, which can result in job losses.

Right now, I believe that the middle of the range is reasonable,

We believe the initiatives we are undertaking in merchandising and operations will improve the Wal-Mart customer experience.

Wal-Mart's sales have doubled and earnings have more than doubled over the past five years but we haven't done a good job in communicating that,

Wal-Mart has only 3 percent of global market share. So there's still tremendous opportunity for expansion,

Wal-Mart has improved the quality and design of many of its products, including bedding, bath, furniture and items for entertaining.

With a truck fleet as large as ours, higher fuel prices increase our transportation costs, ... The bigger impact is on our customer, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck. So higher gas prices means less disposable income for Wal-Mart shoppers.

With Easter being three weeks later this year than 2005, we expected weaker sales in March. We anticipate the April four-week period to be stronger, with comp sales of 4 to 6 percent.