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Wal-Mart

Industrial Analysis:

Wal-Mart competes primarily in the Retail (Department & Discount) industry.

It started out operating mainly as a discount retail department store offering a wide

variety of non-grocery items. However, their focus has turned more toward their

Supercenters which have the same as mentioned above but also includes a full line of

grocery products.

Some of Wal-Mart's main competitors in the discount arena are K-mart and

Target. Since the introduction of the Supercenter and the Neighborhood Market it has

gone up against grocery chains like Albertsons and Kroger. Sam's Club (a membership

only) warehouse which is owned and operated by Wal-Mart competes mostly with

Costco.

Five Forces Framework:

The Threat of New Entrants is probably not much of a concern for the world's

largest retail chain only because they do have Economies of scale by keeping the cost of

products per unit down because they buy......

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