No more "big box" designs for Mal-Wort.

[MsUSA]

Doesn't matter what it looks like, it's still a W-M and I'm not buying.

The big-box behemoth is changing its look.

From now on, in communities across the country, Wal-Mart's newest stores won't come standard issue.

"We don't want them all to look the same," said Keith Morris, the retailer's director of community affairs for Colorado.

"The one in Thornton should look different than the one in Lakewood."

For the past several months, Wal-Mart has been approaching communities with new store plans that are unique - and that markedly depart from the standard blue-and-gray rectangles that have made the company infamous.

The change represents a seismic shift in big-box culture, and the ripple effect should sweep through communities throughout Colorado and nationally.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2583014,00.html