Wal-Mart Reaches 'Line in Sand' Moment in Push to Improve Stores
A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Los Angeles, California.
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For months, a digital clock has counted relentlessly down -- minutes, hours, days -- inside the headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
The timer was set up after Greg Foran, head of the company’s U.S. operations, made Oct. 1 a “line in the sand” for transforming Wal-Mart into a cleaner, easier and friendlier place to shop. The 54-year-old executive has crisscrossed the country visiting stores, trying to bring them up to par.