Bentonville believers
When staff do good work, they may berewarded with the company cheer, wiggling their hips to signify the hyphen that originally punctuated “Walmart”. Saturday meetings are no longer weekly, as they were in Walton’s day, but are nevertheless “like going to church”, according to one employee. Walton’s obsessive focus on efficiency remains. Most meetings begin at least two minutes early; on time is considered late. They end with each employee sure of his or her tasks, or “go-dos”.