Doug McMillon

Emotional, excited, you know, first and foremost.

I think the company's in great hands.

I don't know what I'm going to do next other than help with Walmart for a while, but we'll figure that out.

Forever.

My name is Doug McMillan.

I'm a Walmart associate and I've been around for a long time.

I just got my 35-year service award for 35 years of continuous service a few weeks ago.

Very first time was the summer of 1984, working in a warehouse here in Bentonville.

My dad told me to make some money to pay my way through school.

He was a dentist.

He moved us here to open a practice and he said, you're gonna pay your own way through school.

So in addition to mowing yards, you better get a job.

McDonald's, Kraft, Walmart were the three employers of young people here in Bentonville at the time.

The Kraft cheese plant didn't call me back.

McDonald's paid 335 and Walmart paid 650.

I was very excited to get a job at Walmart.

I was still in high school between my junior and senior year of high school.

And it started with how do we get the super centers growing again and cause them to be healthy?

And you know Walmart well enough to know where to go to get those answers.

You just go ask the associates.