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Thanks for th einfo. Any links on the mexico operations of Walmart will be great.
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Lower Tariffs, Retail Muscle Translate
Into Big Sales for Wal-Mart in Mexico
By DAVID LUHNOW
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL


MEXICO CITY -- Shopkeeper Carlos Huerta recently walked into a Sam's Club warehouse store here and bought $6,000 of Act II brand microwave popcorn. Then he trundled across the street to resell it at his stall in Latin America's biggest wholesale market.

Mr. Huerta used to buy the U.S.-made popcorn direct from the manufacturer's distributor here. But with the U.S.-Mexican border growing increasingly porous, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. now can deliver Act II to its Mexican Sam's Club outlets for only a few cents more than to its U.S. stores, undercutting the product's Mexican distributor.

"I've lost a lot of business," says Mr. Huerta, who sells mostly to small corner grocers. "Now, a lot of people just go directly to Sam's
http://www.wright.edu/~tdung/Walmart_in_mexico.html