Sam Walton purchased a branch of the Ben Franklin store from Butler Brothers.

Sam Walton Walton opened the first Walmart Discount City store at 719 West Walnut Street in Rogers, Arkansas.

Walmart is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Walmart briefly experimented with hypermarkets, the precursor to supercenters.

Sam Walton began sourcing 6% to 40% of his company's products from China.

Walton resigned as CEO and was replaced by David Glass. Walton remains chairman of the board.

Sam Walton opened the first Sam's Club store in New Jersey

Walmart became the largest retailer by revenue in the United States.

Walmart is starting to move to Mexico

Walmart is starting to move to Canada

Wal-Mart conquered all 50 states in the United States.

Walmart sold more toys than American toy giant Toys R Us for the first time ever