Meet the new CEO of Sam’s Club: Latriece Watkins.

As you’ll hear from my interview with Watkins on the January 15 episode of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies podcast, she is a Walmart veteran who began her career in the real estate division in 2006. Over the next two decades, she rose up through the ranks to become Walmart’s chief merchant in 2023. With responsibility for choosing the $500 billion worth of products Walmart sells every year, that made her one of the most powerful people in the retail industry.

In recent years, Watkins........

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