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    • Mon Sep 29th 17:54 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Circuit City Falls Further: 'Bring Out Your Dead'
      Stick a fork in them, they're done.
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    • Thu Sep 11th 09:55 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart: The Best Play in This Market
      Great summary! Wal-Mart is ahead of the curve regarding preparing for and dealing with recession. They dance with the one who brought them to the dance. They work to serve the low to middle income customer. The number of low to middle income customers, or those who perceive themselves as such, have increased in the last couple of years. Therefore, the customer base they have designed their business around is growing.
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    • Wed Aug 27th 16:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart: Can Marketing Influence Share Price?
      George, The stock is up 34% because it was undervalued to begin with.

      In the next few years, Wal-Mart will be the big player in Brazil, China, and India. That creates a couple of BILLION new customers. We are talking incremental business to the $400,000,000,000.00 plus in sales in fy 2009. With any luck, WMT will be doing a Trillion Dollars in sales in 10 years, half of it in various international currencies. Sounds like a low-risk growth company to me.

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    • Fri Aug 8th 21:29 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart Meets July Sales Projections, Why the Unhappiness?
      Well Said Todd. A 9.4% net sales increase is almost 100 Million a day in sales jump. This increase of 100 million dollars a day is more than most businesses in the world gross in a year, 10 years, or a hundred years.

      Looks like Walmart is going down the tubes to me.
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    • Wed Jul 16th 16:48 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Confident in Wal-Mart - Contrary to Market Pessimism
      Good article. Walmart's is in the right place at the right time for the current economic conditions. Of course, they have been in the same place for almost 50 years. Recently, stores have been improved, employee benefits and practices have improved, and they are still setting the benchmark for logistics excellence.

      They are opening new Supercenters in Michigan, Illinois, and the industrial north that were previously hostile territory. Even California is slowing opening up to Walmart. Union Supermarket tuff has fought Walmart with everything but armed resistance. Industrial jobs can be exported when unions destroy a company's competitiveness, retail and service unions are the only ones that can potentially survive. It is hard to export grocery store jobs to China, no matter how high you drive up the cost of food to the public.

      In the part of the country where unions control the labor and hence the cost of operating food stores, the prices were quite high. The average citizen has responded positively to big drops in food prices when Walmart comes to town.

      Walmart has continued growth opportunities in North America. Meanwhile, the international operations are booming with double-digit growth.

      Yeah, I think they will be around for a while and make more money every year for the next 50 years.
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    • Tue Jul 15th 11:59 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart Looks Slightly Overvalued
      I don't know for sure, and neither does anyone else, if any normal matrix or measurement is valid when an international company hits sales of half a trillion dollars.

      Since it never happened before, the negatives and positives of that size and mass is unknown. It is almost certain that assumptions made with "normal" tools are probably wrong.

      Therefore, Walmart is probably remarkably over-valued or tremedously undervalued. Hope that clears it up.
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    • Thu Jul 3rd 14:17 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Starbucks Tells Walmart:: "Here, You Take Them."
      Well Trader Mark, you are probably right. Wal-Mart probably will create many times more than the 12,000 jobs lost by Starbucks. Good thing for those Baristas!

      By the way, a little research will show Walmart has a huge staff of professional trades as well; Legal, Accounting, Medical, Marketing, Engineering, etc. Little place called Bentonville, Arkansas. Their website has hundreds of openings for these positions.

      They take them all from high school dropouts to PHD's and give them an opportunity. What a horrible thing.
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    • Wed Jun 25th 07:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Jason Busch on Wal-Mart's Sustainability: (Still) Missing the Point
      Right on Tim!

      Wal-Mart has moral obligation as on of the largest economic forces in the U.S. to lead. As it lead in hurricane Katrina relief, as it lead to decrease prescription drug costs, it is leading in sustainability efforts. If Wal-Mart does not push packaging reduction, energy use reduction, and cost-cutting it won't matter much if smaller companies try or not.

      History will record that these efforts stimulated the best minds in retail, manufacturing and engineering to act agressively to reduce global warming.

      I just wish Wal-Mart was in the oil business. Gasoline would be a lot cheaper.
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    • Sun Jun 22nd 20:32 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart Keeps Growing Globally
      Wal-Mart has begun operations in India, looking seriously at Russia and Chile. Never count out Australia, Indonesia, perhaps South Africa. Everyone needs to save money and live better.
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    • Tue May 13th 18:07 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Time for Rethink on Discount Retail?
      Wal-Mart was being cautious and conservative in its outlook for the 2nd quarter. The market reaction was a classic "sell on the news" move, nothing more. Smart money has made 20% profit on this stock in the last few months. Smart money should buy on the dips, because a disproportionate share of those rebate checks are going to be spent for food and other such staples. Wal-Mart and Sam's clubs are the place to stretch those dollars. If we take a look at 22% growth in the international business, we have a pretty positive kicker. This is another easy 20% upside to this stock by September 08.
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    • Tue Apr 29th 08:38 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is Wal-Mart a Buy or is Upgrade Just Noise?
      Ordinarily, the recent run-up in price might indicate a "hold" rather than a "buy", however, the next few months results should kick WMT up 10 to 15%.

      The rebate checks will be spent at WMT more than any other retailer, the previous rebate a few years ago proved this. Same store sales will go up more than expected and the next two quarters should be very positive year over year.

      If a return of 15% in 6 months is enough to make you happy, WMT is still a buy.
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    • Tue Apr 15th 09:20 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Wal-Mart: Another 20%-40% Upside in Store
      Great article. Wal-Mart has begun building Supercenters in Mich, Minn, and Ill in the suburbs at a quick pace recently. This previously union store-dominated areas are new and fertile turf. With union-store prices significantly higher for food, the Supercenters will do tremendous volumes, especially now. The diversity of Wal-Mart's International divisions allow for riding out economic swings, and new formats in the U.S. will allow for continued domestic growth. Next year, Wal-Mart will exceed 400 billion in gross sales, in 3 years, probably a half Trillion dollars in annual sales. That kind of cash flow can soak up a lot of little problems without significant negative impact to profits.
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    • Wed Feb 27th 17:17 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Four Reasons Wal-Mart Is at a 2-Year High
      The last time the government passed out money, Wal-Mart saw 32% of it spent in their stores. It was such a boost in same-store sales that there was some difficulty beating same-store sales the next year.

      Referencing international expansion, it is going to equal U.S. sales in 4 or 5 years. This will make Wal-Mart a Trillion Dollars in sales in 10 years or less. Can you say "Trillion"? What kind of economy of scale will this provide? Nobody knows for sure, but the potential is enormous.
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