Retail Blogs – Walmart, Amazon, Alibaba

Here is an assortment of retail blogs regarding Walmart, Amazon, Alibaba.

Wide assortment of retail blogs focusing on Walmart, Amazon and Alibaba.  All three of these companies are doing amazing things with supply chain.

• 25 Facts About Walmart That Show How Big It Really Is.
• Alibaba Supply Chain Warehouse.
• Amazon Prime Air. Using drones for delivery.
• Amazon Warehouse – behind the scenes.
• Exclusive Interview with Jeff Bezos – Founder & CEO of Amazon.com.
• How Walmart Plans to Battle Amazon.
• How Amazon Receives Your Inventory.
• Indra Nooyi, Pepsi Co CEO and Doug McMillon, Walmart CEO.
• Inside Amazon: Secrets of an Online Mega-Giant.
• Inside How Walmart Uses Big Data.
• Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
• IS in Action – WalMart Supply Chain. 7 minute video. 
• Jeff Bezos Amazon story.
• Leading the World’s Largeset Company. Two top Walmart Leaders. VIDEO.
• Meet Amazon’s New Robot Army Shipping Out Your Products.
• Meet the Amazon robots making things more efficient.
• Navigating an Amazon fulfillment center’s 14 miles of conveyor belts.
• Robot army helps run warehouses. 
• Sam & Bud Walton: Reflections. WALMART.
• Sam Walton quotes and sayings.
• “Sam Walton’s Values.” Look at how people treat others and it says a lot.
• The Best Jeff Bezos Quotes: Amazon CEO.
• Two of the Keys to Walmart’s Success.
• Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience Concept Truck. 
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon.
• Walmart History. Sam Walton and the growth of Walmart.

CEO Quotes

• “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” ~Jeff Bezos
• “Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com
• “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.” ~Jeff Bezos
• “Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.” ~ Jack Ma
• “Make inventory a common enemy for your company.” ~Dave Waters
• “A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.” ~Jack Ma
• “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”  ~ Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
• “Keep Calm and call the Supply Chain guy (or gal).” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com
• “We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose…..It’s not just saying yes to the right products, it’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as other ones.”  ~ Tim Cook, CEO Apple.
• “Don’t be afraid to fail. Get out there and experiment and learn and fail and get a rate based on the experiences you have. Go for it and when you go for it you’ll learn what you’re capable of, what the potential is, where the opportunities are, but you can’t be afraid to fail because that’s when you learn.”  ~Michael Dell
• “Supply chains are everywhere. From the biggest company in the world to running your household. We all have supply chain experience even if we don’t know it.” ~EverythingSupplyChain.com
• “The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don’t grow vertically; they grow exponentially.”  ~Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi

“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do.  One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” ~Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

“If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.” ~Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Alibaba

“I don’t want to be liked.  I want to be respected.” ~Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.” ~Sam Walton, founder of Walmart

“Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~Dave Waters