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The Waltons: Inside America’s Richest Family (Fortune Magazine)
From Fortune Magazine:
"Have you been to Bentonville?"
It's a question more and more businesspeople ask each other these days, and increasingly the answer is yes. This hamlet of 25,000 in Northwest Arkansas is, of course, the home of Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, and as such has become a mandatory destination for hordes of vendors, contractors, and salesmen. As you might imagine, growing pains abound. The road from the airport is a curvy country lane that runs a dozen miles with at least three 90-degree turns. There are no big hotels in town. And between the endless construction projects and the choked streets, it can sometimes take you 15 minutes to go a mile or two. Then there's Wal-Mart headquarters, which sits amid the sprawl--a faded, one-story, red brick building that looks like a book depository for the board of education.
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