Walmart SKU Marathon
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A story about an entrepreneur's dedication to learning retail by turning a 3-hour drive into a 20-hour Walmart research expedition.
"He told a story about how he flew to DC and had a connecting flight to North Carolina. He decided 'You know what, screw it, I'm driving from DC to Greenville, North Carolina.' It's normally a 3-hour drive, but he noticed there were 14 Walmarts between those points on that route.
He decided to stop at every single one of them to learn. It turned a 3-hour drive into a 20-hour drive. He told me he has some app where you scan things in Walmart that teaches you about each SKU. He said he had scanned every single product in Walmart.
When someone says they've scanned all of them, you'd normally think they're exaggerating - like saying it's 1000 degrees outside. But with him, I actually believed he literally scanned every single one of them."
[Context: This story was told by Sam Parr, discussing an entrepreneur's obsessive dedication to understanding retail operations]
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.