Grocer Super Battle

REVIEW SUMMARY
Business. Walmart.
Industry. Retail
Key. Company recently expanded a Sarasota store into a supercenter that now sells grocery and produce.
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Paul Wilcox liked his $4 an hour job pushing carts in a Walmart parking lot just fine back in 1990, save for one thing: The sizzling heat of a Florida summer had grown intolerable.

So Wilcox, then an 18-year-old community college student, jumped at the chance to move inside the Port Charlotte store when his boss offered him a position in maintenance. Wilcox figured he'd put together bikes, maybe fix some broken merchandise.