The first store outside Arkansas was opened in 1968, in Sikeston, Missouri and Claremore, Oklahoma. The company was incorporated on October 31, 1969. In 1970 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. opened its headquarter and first distribution center in Bentonville.
By 1971 Wal-Mart was operating in five states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma; as it moved into Texas in 1975, there were 125...