Foreign markets fertile for Wal-Mart

Retailer tailors stores’ formats, sizes to gain new customers

By Steve Painter

Customers in Shanghai, China, shop for chicken feet at a Wal-Mart store, as the world’s largest retailer increasingly becomes an exporter as it sends goods abroad to stock stores.

Bloomberg News / KEVIN LEE

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In Brazil, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is counting on its small format Todo Dia neighborhood grocery stores to drive sales among low-income customers.

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This article was published May 11, 2008 at 4:09 a.m.

Business, Pages 84, 93 on 05/11/2008

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