Wal-Mart eyes huge markets in China Here’s the company that is the American as mom’s apple pie –Wal-Mart and now the discount giant is making a big push to succeed in a huge oversea market, China. So can it work? Here’s NBC’ chief financial correspondent Anne Thompson.
Wal-Mart in China is much like Wal-Mart here It’s my Wal-Mart, ho. It greeters, low prices, and …..expansion. With 56 doors already open and employs 3000 people, it hopes to add 20 more locations this year and hire up to 150,000 people over the next five years. Give in an unique position on the international retail mark. There are no any other American firm that has anyone close to 150,000 workers in China. The lure for Wal-Mart and other US companies is China’s red-hot economy which lasts… for nearly 10% and it’s 1.3 billion consumers who different customs and tastes. Crowds are very happy to have many people in our stores and very different selection of merchandise . The specially Wal-Mart super .. section . There are live ternals and .. fish, rice and in the dialy case ..slight peek there. Wal-Mart have relationship with China for decades. Primarily as the source produced by cheap labor and sold as cheap prices. Wal-Mart has already import with 12 billion product from China last year. More than the entire United Kingdom imported from China. Though Wal-mart’s is the largest world’s retailer, in China ,it is the number two foreign trade behind the French company. But in China the retail chain is going in a much different way. Here Wal-Mart is first made a small town in America over there Wal-Mart is a big city store. Wal-Mart has become more of an urban phenomenon in China, partly, that’s where the income growth has been, so that’s where their real capital of market is Wal-Mart, following the money in china, and hoping its formula for success translates in the largest retail market in the world. For today, NBC’ new, Anne Thompson New York
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