In the past, if your goal in life was to run a retail company, you wanted your biography to open with a scene of you manning the sales floor or schlepping boxes in a warehouse. The younger you were in this scene, and the lowlier the position, the better the story. Doug McMillon, the C.E.O. of Walmart, started thirty years ago as a teen-ager, unloading trucks at a distribution center. Walgreens’s C.E.O., Greg Wasson, began as a pharmacy intern while still a college student. But the former Targe...
In the past, if your goal in life was to run a retail company, you wanted your biography to open with a scene of you manning the sales floor or schlepping boxes in a warehouse. The younger you were in this scene, and the lowlier the position, the better the story. Doug McMillon, the C.E.O. of Walmart, started thirty years ago as a teen-ager, unloading trucks at a distribution center. Walgreens’s C.E.O., Greg Wasson, began as a pharmacy intern while still a college student. But the former Targe...
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