{"id":980015,"date":"2025-12-12T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980015"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:31:50","slug":"walmarts-retiring-ceo-doug-mcmillon-once-said-he-never-planned-to-stay-long-my-first-time-with-walmart-was-just-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/12\/walmarts-retiring-ceo-doug-mcmillon-once-said-he-never-planned-to-stay-long-my-first-time-with-walmart-was-just-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart\u2019s retiring CEO Doug McMillon once said he never planned to stay long: \u2018My first time with Walmart was just to \u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart CEO Doug McMillon once said that he never planned to stay longer at the company. McMillion, who plans to retire next year on January 31, was speaking at Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business in 2017 when he said: \u201cMy first time with Walmart was just to make money during the summertime to help pay my way through school\u201d. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t mean to be there very long at all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A 40-year rise from hourly worker to Walmart CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart CEO Doug McMillon once said that he never planned to stay longer at the company. McMillion, who plans to retire next year on January 31, was speaking at Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business in 2017 when he said: \u201cMy first time with Walmart was just to make money during the summertime to help pay my way through school\u201d. \u201cAnd I didn\u2019t mean to be there very long at all,\u201d he added. A 40-year rise from hourly worker to Walmart CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}