when did walmart launch retail link
Using figures for Wal-Mart released through a sex-discrimination lawsuit, and relying for the rest of the large retail sector on numbers from the March 2005 âCurrent Population Survey,â the study finds that Wal-Mart pays its hourly workers an average hourly wage of $9.68, while other large retailers average $11.08.echnology, in particular, put the company ahead of its competitors. Already by the 1970s, Wal-Mart was using computers to link its stores and warehouses. Sales data allowed Wal-Mart to keep track of specific items and reduce inventory miscalculations.