What's the only company Wal-Mart fears?

[ironflange]

Click here to find out:

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,538834,00.html

[La_Serpiente]

1. I think

they also fear Target and/or Walgreens.

but that's what my uncle told me. We don't have them around here.

[lizerdbits]

5. They should fear the Target in my area

I don't have to wait in line 30 minutes which was the main reason I started only going to Target. Target during the holidays has shorter lines than any time I've ever been to Wal Mart, even 10:00 at night. Target is much cleaner although I doubt that factors in to the choice between the two very often. I think there's a Walgreens somewhere nearby but I've never been.

[BuckeFushe]

2. 'Nuff said

[Demobrat]

3. The stock market is up.

That's what matters. Not people who shop at Wal-Mart.

Edit: Oops, wrong Wal-Mart thread.

[Lefty48197]

4. An overseas KMart

where ALL of the products are produced by Asian child labor, and the CEO is paid 10,000 Yuan per year.

[absyntheNsugar]

6. Here's the part I liked:

Axiom No. 3: Take care of your employees. Sol Price actually invited unions in to represent Fed-Mart and Price Club workers. Following suit, Costco pays the top wage in retail, starting employees at $10 an hour. In the minds of Price and Sinegal, high wages yield high productivity, low turnover—Costco's is a third of the retail industry average of 64%, according to the National Retail Foundation—and minimal shrinkage; that's retail-speak for theft, which at Costco is about 13% of the industry norm.