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At a Wal-Mart in West Bend Wisconsin, a scuffle broke out among the approximately 60 people waiting in line for the store's allocation of 10 PlayStation 3 units. When the crowd found out the systems would be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis, pushing and shoving broke out, sending one system hopeful face-first into a telephone pole. Police say an ambulance had to be called to the scene. more
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Wal-Mart features a large checkout area in the front of the store. Over a half-mile long, customers can choose from 1,245 checkout lanes, with 405 of them being the self-automated checkout systems, which is explained further in detail below. For the old-fashioned customer, traditional cashiers are ... available to assist them as well. Rarely talkative, the cashier's duty is to try overcharging the customer. It is rare for the checkout area to have more than 20 cashiers at any given time, so lines can back up to the other side of the city in which the Wal-Mart is located.
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In the past decade, Wal-Mart has quietly emerged as the nation's biggest record store. Wal-Mart now sells an estimated one out of every five major-label albums. It has so much power, industry insiders say, that what it chooses to stock can basically determine what becomes a hit. "If you don't have a Wal-Mart account, you probably won't have a major pop artist," says one label executive.
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Walter "The General" Brooks stood amid the vacant buildings of a former Reyerson Steel plant on Chicago's South Side, the projected site of a shopping center anchored by a Wal-Mart discount store. "We need jobs," exclaimed Brooks, owner of a nearby fried chicken restaurant. "There are no industrial jobs around. They're all overseas."
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials said the reduced price represents a savings to the customer of up to 70 percent on some drugs. The average monthly cost for a generic drug prescription is $28.74, according to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. For branded drugs, that figure is $96.01.
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Wal-Mart reported that, in 1994, one store in Florida had 226 car thefts, 25 purse snatchings, 32 burglaries, 14 armed robberies, and 3 assaults. Within four months of starting golf cart patrols in the parking lots, “the reported incidents for each of these crimes dropped to zero, and numbers have remained low.” (David Gorman, “Loss Prevention Racks Up Success,” Security Management, Mar 1996.)
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