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Default Wal Mart food price rollback

In news:rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz > posted on Mon,
12 Apr 2010 20:53:57 -0500 the following:

> Texas, Austin in particular, is probably the only market where Walmart
> still hasn't won the grocery share over HEB after 10-12 years of trying.
> Walmart announced plans to start catering to Mexicans by opening up a
> new brand of "Walmart Mercados" to get that share, but that plan fizzled
> far as I can tell.


Yes, if the cost analysis showed that Wal-Mart would have had to spend
three cents more than they wanted to, they'd scrap the whole plan.

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