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Wal-Mart Jumps Into Small Format Retail Style

The Financial Times covers Wal-Mart’s latest venture, a small format community store called Marketside:

Marketside is the first new format to be launched by Wal-Mart since it started its supermarket-sized Wal-Mart Neigborhood Market stores in 1998. It is also the first format not to use the Wal-Mart name since it created the Sams Club warehouse store in 1983.

The new Wal-Mart stores will be competing directly with Tescos new Fresh & Easy small format stores. Tesco has open

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