Sam's Club CEO started her career as a Walmart intern

You started at Walmart as an intern in the real estate department in 1997 and 29 years later you are the CEO of Sam's Club. I want to know what that intern in 97 thought her career path was going to look like. It's interesting because that intern thought she would work for Walmart while she was an intern and then she'd go off and be a lawyer somewhere. I left after I graduated from law school for three months while I took the bar. But the plan wasn't to go back. The plan was to practice law. And the person who hired me called and said, are you ready to come back? And I said, no. And she called me every day for two weeks until I came back. The first job I came back to was in real estate. I spent about 10 years there. And then I went to Sam's Club because the leadership team says you should work in merchandising. The leader of Sam's Club at the time said you should be a merchant. And I said, no. Second time, he said, you should be a merchant. This guy's going places, I probably better listen to him. That was Doug McMillan. So I went to merchandising at Sam's Club and I spent a couple of years there. I worked in merchandising in Walmart US for about 10 years and then did a couple of other assignments outside of that. Then went back to merchandising. Ended up being the chief merchant of Walmart US Merchandising until February when I started this job.