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Wal-Mart's strategy of cutting prices hurt December sales and wasn't successful in luring shoppers away from competitors who advertised late in the season. The company debuted its earliest-ever holiday marketing campaign on Nov. 1 to avoid last year's mistakes, when it was slow to discount popular items and had to offer last-minute markdowns.
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Yesterday's announcement that Wal-Mart would start selling unprotected MP3s from Universal Music Group and EMI on its digital-music site was, on its face, mostly notable for its pricing--94 cents a song, or $9.22 an album. (Digital Music News has a pretty solid analysis of the change in market dynamics that may result from this pricing plan, both on the digital side and the brick-and-mortar side.) But there are a few catches: Not only are the downloads only available to Internet Explorer users, they ... serve as a reminder that with Wal-Mart's prices comes Wal-Mart's approach to art that may offend the church ladies: more
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In July 2006, Wal-Mart announced its withdrawal from Germany due to sustained losses in a highly competitive market. The stores were sold to the German company Metro during Wal-Mart's fiscal third quarter.[42][39]
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