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...Mart is mounting an audacious expansion that could double its sales within just five years, to $480 billion. Some of that growth will come in new markets abroad, where 1,200 stores in nine countries already account for about 16% of the chain's total sales. But even more growth will be won as the chain insinuates itself into more U.S. neighborhoods and invades more product categories...
...every major business they are in," says Linda Kristiansen, a retail analyst for UBS Warburg Equity Research. If there's no Wal-Mart store near you, just wait. If you shop at Wal-Mart, expect your store to get bigger or a new store to open even closer. The chain plans to expand from 3,400 U.S. locations today--half of them in the South--to a nationwide network approaching 5,000 stores in five years...
...biggest advantages. Its expertise in managing high-volume inventory and supply networks doesn't work as well in Europe and Asia, where the highway systems aren't as good and stores typically are smaller. So Wal-Mart has to become better at buying, reaching further back into the supply chain to purchase at the factory such products as hardware and apparel that it now obtains from outside vendors and importers. "We realized that, as we continue to expand internationally, the need to leverage international and domestic buying power was key, and the only way to do it effectively...
...international division. It was a humbling lesson for Bentonville. To help offset losing the advantage of logistics abroad, and to increase its pricing power at home, Wal-Mart has decided to use its mass to become a better global buyer. The company is reaching farther back into the supply chain to source products such as hardware and apparel that it now buys from outside vendors and importers. "We realized that as we continue to expand internationally the need to leverage international and domestic buying power was key, and the only way to do it effectively is to do it ourselves...
...slashed its retail prices in half and upped its annual jeans sales to 1 million, from 174,000. ASDA is acquiring some 2,000 products from Wal-Mart's global network, and its gains might have set off a consolidation spree. Last week, Morrisons, the U.K.'s fifth-largest chain, launched a takeover offer for Safeway, the fourth-largest. ASDA could join the fray. ASDA is making its mark on Wal-Mart, too. ASDA's George brand of apparel is one of the most popular private-label lines in Britain, generating sales of around $1.6 billion...