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Why Walmart Suddenly Thinks Smaller Is Better | Forbes

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Walter Loeb
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The convenience of quick shopping has become front and center. Today there is a real focus at Walmart on smaller stores. Two hundred new Market Place units will open this year. That is a tremendous ramp-up in the expansion plans–and the new Walmart management team is suggesting there could be thousands in five years. Yikes! Thousands! What has happened? Why now?

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