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Wal-mart can be beat, but not by copying it
By Tom Dougherty, blogs.stealingshare.com
The Holy Grail in retailing is, of course, how to take market share from the biggest retailer of them all: Wal-Mart. It seems impossible given Wal-Mart’s arsenal of hundreds of billions of dollars in yearly revenue (more than five times as much as the nearest retailer).
Wal-Mart has continued growth in both revenue and earnings and although recent news reported less-than exciting same-store sales, Wal-Mart is king.