Editing Sam Walton (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:President George H. W. Bush and Sam Walton.jpg|thumb|Walton (right) and President [[George H. W. Bush]] (left) in March 1992; Sam Walton died 18 days after this photo was taken.]]
In 1998, Walton was included in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century|list of 100 most influential people of the 20th Century]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/walton.html | title = Time 100 Builders & Titans: Sam Walton | date = December 7, 1998 | magazine = [[Time Magazine]] | access-date = March 31, 2012 |url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20001018095153/http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/walton.html | archive-date = October 18, 2000}} at [[Wayback Machine]]<!-- archive--></ref> Walton was honored for his work in retail in March 1992, just one month before his death, when he received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from then-President [[George H. W. Bush]].<ref name="Forbes283"/>

''[[Forbes]]'' ranked Sam Walton as the richest person in the United States from 1982 to 1988, ceding the top spot to [[John Kluge]] in 1989 when the editors began to credit Walton's fortune jointly to him and his four children.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2010/09/09/oldest-billionaire-on-the-forbes-400-dies-at-96/ | title = Billionaire John Kluge Dies At 96 | author = Clare O'Connor | work = [[Forbes]] | date = September 9, 2010 | access-date = September 11, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170820081356/https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2010/09/09/oldest-billionaire-on-the-forbes-400-dies-at-96/ | archive-date = August 20, 2017 | url-status = live }}</ref> ([[Bill Gates]] first headed the list in 1992, the year Walton died.) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. also runs [[Sam's Club]] warehouse stores.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walmart's test store for new technology, Sam's Club Now, opens next week in Dallas|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/walmarts-test-store-for-new-technology-sams-club-now-opens-next-week-in-dallas/|access-date=November 6, 2020|website=TechCrunch|date=October 29, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Walmart operates in the United States and in more than fifteen international markets, including: [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[Canada]], [[Chile]], [[China]], [[Costa Rica]], [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]], [[India]], [[South Africa]], [[Botswana]], [[Ghana]], [[Malawi]], [[Mozambique]], [[Namibia]], [[Tanzania]], [[Uganda]], [[Zambia]], [[Kenya]], [[Lesotho]], [[Eswatini]] (Swaziland), [[Honduras]],
[[Japan]], [[Mexico]], [[Nicaragua]] and the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>[http://walmartstores.com/FactsNews/NewsRoom/9350.aspx International Operations Data Sheet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111035737/http://walmartstores.com/FactsNews/NewsRoom/9350.aspx |date=January 11, 2010 }} [[Walmart]] Corporation, July 2009.</ref>

At the [[University of Arkansas]], the Business College ([[Sam M. Walton College of Business]]) is named in his honor. Walton was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1992.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/23/76198/index.htm | title = The National BUSINESS HALL OF FAME | author = Patty de Llosa and Jessica Skelly von Brachel | work = [[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] | publisher = Peter Nulty Reporter Associates | date = March 23, 1992 | access-date = May 25, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305220917/http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/03/23/76198/index.htm | archive-date = March 5, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref>