Wal-Mart
Both loved and hated by shoppers worldwide, the Wal-Mart family of discount stores has grown in less than forty years from a single business in a small Arkansas town in 1962 to oneof the world's largest corporations. Wal-Mart operated eleven hundred stores around the world in the year 2000. The Wal-Mart strategy of combining low prices with a huge inventory and attentive customer service has changed retail sales practices across the United States. Many complain that large Wal-Mart stores change the nature of the towns where they open by taking business away from small, locally owned shops and forcing them.....
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