Walmart Toy Truck
notes: label: Description
content: This scale model of a Freightliner tractor trailer represents the importance of logistics to Walmart. Sam Walton founded Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962, and put great emphasis on lowering costs. To free themselves of middlemen, Walmart built distribution centers and operated their own fleet of trucks. Using barcodes, GPS, and networked computers, the company learned what customers wanted, where, and when. Walmart sought to take manufacturer’s deliveries at distribution centers (not warehouses) and immediately ship goods to stores and into the customer’s hands. As Jay Fitzsimmons, senior VP and Walmart Treasurer explained "The misconception is that we're in the retail business," rather, "we're in the distribution business."
place: label: place made
content: China
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Peter Liebhold
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0316.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0316
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0316.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy truck
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 15/16 in x 10 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 4.92125 cm x 25.7175 cm x 3.4925 cm