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Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.

Maria Smith leaves a corporate career to open a family-run Filipino restaurant in Rogers, Arkansas, with her brother Bill Martfeld cooking from their mother's recipes.

The opening night of Bruno Mars' five-show Toronto stand, the most any artist has booked at Rogers Stadium on one tour, was called off for bad weather on 23 May and moved to 31 May.

Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), an operating unit of American Electric Power, is constructing the 100 MW / 400 MWh Oologah Battery Energy Storage System at its Northeastern Station in Rogers County, Oklahoma. Approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as part of a landmark $1.2 billion generation plan, the four-hour storage facility repurposes retired coal plant electrical infrastructure to meet soaring industrial and data center loads.

Emirates Global Aluminium (60%) and Century Aluminum (40%) plan a 750,000 tonne-per-year smelter at the Port of Inola, Oklahoma, drawing more than 1,000 MW of continuous grid power from PSO under a contract still being negotiated; the 4 billion USD project faces an Oklahoma Attorney General nuisance suit.