Wal-Mart may be too American to succeed globally ... Brash

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This article slaps Friedman & Wally World!
Wal-Mart may be just too American to succeed globally

Outside its homeland, the company formula mirrors that of US foreign policy: brash, bold and increasingly unpopular

Richard Adams
Thursday August 24, 2006
The Guardian


When Thomas Friedman - the American journalist who has become globalisation's loudest cheerleader - wanted to illustrate the powerful forces at work in the world economy, he got on a flight for Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters of the glory that is Wal-Mart.
In his hagiographic bestseller, The World Is Flat, Friedman records his awe while standing in the middle of Wal-Mart's operation centre in Bentonville, watching the movement of goods to and fro at the heart of the world's largest retailer - a company that last year recorded more than $300bn in sales from 6,600 stores in 15 countries, including the Asda chain in Britain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/supermarkets/story/0,,1856902,00.html

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1. They can just drop the Wal and Mart, leave the star. Just call it: PRC.