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...finally make all those confounding boxes and wires work the way they're supposed to, he will not just be enriching the lives of millions of IBM shareholders, its 319,000 employees and the entire tech economy--but all the beleaguered office workers who daily curse their PCs...
...think Wal-Mart already sells just about everything, think again. Think PCs, ceiling fans, more fashionable clothing, gasoline and even cars. "Their goal is to have a 30% share of 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...
...between, it's tormenting local grocery and convenience stores with Neighborhood Markets (call 'em Small-Marts). "It's surprising how much room we have for growth," says Robson Walton, Sam's son and the company's non-executive chairman. As it grows, Wal-Mart is adding categories such as PCs, ceiling fans, more fashionable clothing and gasoline. And last week the company announced it will begin offering the basic financial services already available in some stores - check cashing, money orders - to all its U.S. customers, many of whom don't have a bank account. It wants...
...unique and drew people to the area in the first place. Other independent stores like Scoops and Beans, an ice cream shop that once competed with Herrell’s, and the Bow and Arrow pub, have shut down in recent years as stores like the Gap and Sprint PCS have prospered...
Even if the feds step in, the only way tower builders are moving into cell-phone-rich, aesthetically guarded communities is through camouflage. Sprint PCS recently agreed to pay an estimated $150,000 to fix up--and wire up--a century-old windmill in a ritzy section of Fairfield, Conn. The mansions there have lousy cellular reception because well-heeled neighbors don't want a tower in their backyard. "We've got millionaires sitting in their driveways just so they can use their cell phones," says an exasperated resident...