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What's Wrong with Wal-Mart
Sales are flat. Expansion is stalled. Image problems abound. Find out what the world’s biggest retailer is doing to tackle its strategic problems.
Wal-Mart rose from a small chain in the Ozark Mountains to become the largest retailer in the world. But the strategies that fueled more than four decades of growth — squeezing inefficiencies out of its supply chain, saturating the U.S. with its Supercenters, and driving down costs to uphold its "Always low prices" mantra — have now caused the retailer to stagnate. We examine Wal-Mart's situation and how it got there and take a look at how the retailer is trying to fix its problems. But are the fixes good enough? We also spoke to the experts to find out what they think Wal-Mart should do to get back on track.
