Necrosis is the death of body tissue. It occurs when too little blood flows to the tissue. This can be from injury, radiation, or chemicals. Necrosis cannot be reversed. When large areas of tissue die due to a lack of blood supply, the condition is called gangrene.
âWalmart does more business by March 3 than Target does all year. Target doesnât have a single store outside the United States; Walmartâs international stores alone generate almost twice Targetâs total revenue.â. Walmart founder Sam Walton speaks to employees at the opening of a store in Topeka, Kans., in 1988. On July 2, 1962 â 50 years ago today â Sam Walton opened the very first Walmart store in Rogers, Ark. Little did he know at the time that he was laying the foundation for an American institution that would reshape not just the retail industry but the U.S. itself.
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. 1  Sam Walton, with his brother Bud Walton, founded Wal-Mart, the chain of discount variety stores that in the 1990s became the world's largest retailer. Sam Walton went into the retail business in 1945, and by the time Wal-Mart first opened in 1962 he owned a chain of 15 variety stores in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.