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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (90223)	1/7/2000 7:35:00 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

<<<WMT has survived: The Cold War, Vietnam, the 1960's, the early 1970's, many, many economic recessions, the prime rates in the teens of the early 1980's, the early 1990's Greenspan recession, etc>>> Sheesh ! You talk like my grandfather Victor. Old isn't necessarily better ? In companies, it almost never is...!

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (90223)	1/7/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

WMT also pioneered stock options for the masses in the corporation; I would say that WMT has made more people rich than AMZN ever will. (Followed by Sears, then a few others, before AMZN even shows up on the list.) Let's not forget MSFT in the option department:-) f you think about WMT's customer profile, they are lower to middle income, and in huge numbers. And who is now coming on-line in huge numbers, who are the non early-adopters? Right. You are correct regarding WMT's customer profile. WMT did not really make an effor to be on the net until the masses were there. What would be the point? William says that is just an excuse on WMT's part and I respect William's judgement a lot. I believe William is wrong on this issue. I don't think wmt needs to worry about amzn; it is really a non-issue to WMT's success. I concurr. Amazon's management is kind of "goofy." They state they do not pay attention to the competition and only pay attention to how they run their business. Yet, the next think you know, they sue BNBN for the one click patent. If Amazon is not concerned about competition, then why bother devoting resources to that and specifically BNBN. Almost every site I go to now has some sort of one click option. Glenn

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (90223)	1/7/2000 8:40:00 PM
From: Hobie1Kenobe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Victor, You're right on the money -- WMT's loyal customers will be the tsunami of late adopters that will drive the success of their on-line efforts. They'll place their order on line, swing by the Ryan's Steakhouse for dinner and on their way home pick up their pre-packaged order from the pickup desk without having to wait in those horrendous lines. As William Shatner would say, "this is gonna be really big!" Let's lean on Glenn and HJ for some IPO shares. ;0) JF3 (holding PCLN no longer)