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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 07:47 PM
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is this the beginning of the end of an empire...?
"Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts in Retail
Rivals Find Strategies
To Defeat Low Prices;
World Has Changed...

The Wal-Mart Era, the retailer's time of overwhelming business and social influence in America, is drawing to a close"

By GARY MCWILLIAMS


http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119135657404946747-lMyQjAxMDE3OTAxMzMwNTM2Wj.html






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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 07:55 PM
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1. I think it is other retailers finally finding out how to compete with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart will not go away overnight.
Remember when Sears was the biggest retailer in America with stores in almost every town across America.
K Mart the same way, now they merged with Sears.

But the Costco's and other retailers have learned how to compete. Many former Wal-Mart managers now work for some of their competitors. They surly took some of the Wal-Mart secrets of retailing with them.

Couple that with the black eye Wal-Mart gets for the way they treat their employees and it looks like it could come down, but the will be a force for some time to come.

Most of all, it is not the Wal-Mart that Sam Walton created, most of his philosophies have been replaced by pure greed.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 08:01 PM
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2. a&p were bigger than walmart...
in 1930 a&p had 13,000 stores and today they have 340. in the 30`s they controlled the "entire" grocery market in the usa
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 08:19 PM
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3. What are the reasons for its demise? nt
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-03-07 10:26 PM
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4. here ya go
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