INSIGHT: Wal-Mart shrugs off US sales drop
By: just-food.com | 13 August 2009
Wal-Mart has played down the decline in same-store sales that it saw in the US during the second quarter and focused on increasing traffic and market share gains as signs of the health of its domestic business.
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Wal-Mart has played down the decline in same-store sales that it saw in the US during the second quarter and focused on increasing traffic and market share gains as signs of the health of its domestic business.
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