Comments on: Wal-Mart : Target :: value : meaning http://cultureby.com/2005/06/walmart_target_.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Supergenius http://cultureby.com/2005/06/walmart_target_.html/comment-page-1#comment-6202 Supergenius Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:11:10 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=933#comment-6202 Didn't K-mart try the same thing with their Martha S. line? What ever happened to K-mart anyway? ;) Didn’t K-mart try the same thing with their Martha S. line?

What ever happened to K-mart anyway?
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]]> By: Tom Guarriello http://cultureby.com/2005/06/walmart_target_.html/comment-page-1#comment-6201 Tom Guarriello Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:02:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=933#comment-6201 Well, Grant, I'll certainly second your first step. As for that second step, I'd say, "it's a little loose, so watch out you don't trip!" I find it fascinating that the Boys from Bentonville are so late in coming to the meaning party. The aesthetic revolution has been going on for some time now and you'd think someone at Wal*Mart would have been thinking about "next" long before this. But, as we've seen time and time again, the human pattern making machine too often becomes addicted to operating on auto-replicate. We see Jeff Immelt trying to bring a new cultural imperative into GE, with innovation sharing the big stage with Six Sigma. Whether value and meaning can co-exist in Arkansas is a big question mark for me. Remember, these are folks who're used to beating the last dime out of supplier margins; arguing the meaning which that dime will deliver is not something they've encouraged in the supply chain. But we'll see, won't we? Well, Grant, I’ll certainly second your first step. As for that second step, I’d say, “it’s a little loose, so watch out you don’t trip!”

I find it fascinating that the Boys from Bentonville are so late in coming to the meaning party. The aesthetic revolution has been going on for some time now and you’d think someone at Wal*Mart would have been thinking about “next” long before this. But, as we’ve seen time and time again, the human pattern making machine too often becomes addicted to operating on auto-replicate.

We see Jeff Immelt trying to bring a new cultural imperative into GE, with innovation sharing the big stage with Six Sigma. Whether value and meaning can co-exist in Arkansas is a big question mark for me. Remember, these are folks who’re used to beating the last dime out of supplier margins; arguing the meaning which that dime will deliver is not something they’ve encouraged in the supply chain. But we’ll see, won’t we?

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