Editing Sam Walton (section)

==A chain of Ben Franklin stores==
With the new Bentonville "Five and Dime" opening for business and, 220 miles away, a year left on the lease in Newport, the money-strapped young Walton had to learn to delegate responsibility.<ref name="WaltonHuey">{{cite book | title = Made in America: My Story | last1 = Walton | first1 = Sam | author2 = John Huey | year = 1992 | publisher = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] | location = New York | isbn = 0-385-42615-1 | url = https://archive.org/details/samwaltonmadeina00walt}}</ref><ref name="Trimble">{{cite book | title = Sam Walton: the Inside Story of America's Richest Man | first1 = Vance H. | last1 = Trimble | publisher = [[Penguin Books]] | year = 1991 | isbn = 0-451-17161-6}} {{ISBN|978-0-451-17161-0}}</ref>

After succeeding with two stores at such a distance (and with the [[Post–World War II baby boom|postwar baby boom]] in full effect), Walton became enthusiastic about scouting more locations and opening more [[Ben Franklin (company)|Ben Franklin franchises]]. (Also, having spent countless hours behind the wheel, and with his close brother [[James "Bud" Walton]] having been a pilot in the war, he decided to buy a small second-hand airplane. Both he and his son [[John T. Walton|John]] would later become accomplished pilots and log thousands of hours scouting locations and expanding the family business.).<ref name="WaltonHuey"/>

In 1954, he opened a store with his brother [[James "Bud" Walton|Bud]] in a shopping center in Ruskin Heights, a suburb of [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. With the help of his brother and father-in-law, Sam went on to open many new variety stores. He encouraged his managers to invest and take an equity stake in the business, often as much as $1000 in their store, or the next outlet to open. (This motivated the managers to sharpen their managerial skills and take ownership over their role in the enterprise.)<ref name="WaltonHuey"/> By 1962, along with his brother Bud, he owned 16 stores in Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas (fifteen Ben Franklins and one independent, in Fayetteville).<ref>{{Cite news | url = http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ben-franklin-store-a-throwback-to-the-five-and-dime/article_929768ec-f930-11e1-a9aa-0019bb30f31a.html | title = Ben Franklin store, a throwback to the five-and-dime, finally closes | author = Kavita Kumar | work = [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] | date = September 8, 2012 | access-date = July 26, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140830120803/http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ben-franklin-store-a-throwback-to-the-five-and-dime/article_929768ec-f930-11e1-a9aa-0019bb30f31a.html | archive-date = August 30, 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref>