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The company and its own museum both date the first Wal-Mart Discount City to 2 July 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.[1]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.
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