Richard Baker

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1,143 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Forget about it.

The business is worth 2.2 billion and I'm not selling you those stores for a $500 million.

Got on the plane, flew home.

Then Walmart, Walmart bid $800 million.

Then a target came back and they bid a billion dollars.

And then Walmart bid a billion two.

Now it's Christmas time.

I always thought I was going to make a deal with Walmart.

How could Walmart possibly let

And I'm a Walmart guy and I knew everybody.

How could this possibly go to Target?

Now it's mid-December, about to go away for Christmas.

And I have a deal with Target for $1,850,000,000, not including the inventory.

So that would basically be a $1,850,000,000 profit after all the expenses.

And I shake hands with Target.

Walmart is kind of not responding because I don't think they believed the number when I told it to them.

I was dealing with the CEO and CFO of Target, and I was dealing with the second person at mergers and acquisition at Walmart.

That's a lesson.

So the people from Target say to me, we're ready to get a purchase agreement done.

I fly to Minnesota with my same one real estate lawyer and my operating guy, and they're

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