Sunday, July 30, 2006

Germany defeats the beast; Wal-Mart retreats.

Wal-Mart admits defeat in Germany and sells stores

Andrew Clark
Saturday July 29, 2006
The Guardian

The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has made a rare admission of failure by selling its hypermarket chain in Germany at a loss of $1bn (£530m) after failing to convert the country's shoppers and regulators to its low-price, American-style trading.

Wal-Mart said yesterday that it was offloading its 85 German outlets to a local rival, Metro, in a move that calls time on its nine-year struggle to make an impact in the country.

3 comments:

Highwayman said...

YOU GO GERMANY! Now to see if anyone else is paying attention.

Wall Street is gonna love this!

All4Word said...

Michael Shuman, author of The Small-mart Revolution, is appearing at the Smart Growth Summit on Thursday.

Paying attention? Jawohl!

Highwayman said...

NAC Readers,

Off topic, but currently pertinent. See my post concerning this past weeks 2007 Budget hearings at
http://highwayview.blogspot.com/