Foreign markets fertile for Wal-Mart

Retailer tailors stores’ formats, sizes to gain new customers

By Steve Painter (Contact)

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
2008-05-09 13:56:00

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This article was published Sunday, May 11, 2008.

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

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