{"id":2910,"date":"2007-05-30T21:45:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2007-05-30T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T21:45:52","slug":"an_interesting_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Look at Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/30\/business\/media\/30walmart.html?ex=1338177600&#038;en=dd2ab1d2d8bf8ea3&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Michael Barbaro<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A confidential report prepared for senior executives at Wal-Mart Stores concludes, in stark terms, that the chain\u2019s traditional strengths \u2014 its reputation for discounts, its all-in-one shopping format and its enormous selection \u2014 \u201cwork against us\u201d as it tries to move upscale.<br \/>\nAs a result, the report says, the chain \u201cis not seen as a smart choice\u201d for clothing, home d\u00e9cor, electronics, prescriptions and groceries, categories the retailer has identified as priorities as it tries to turn around its slipping store sales, a decline likely to be emphasized Friday during Wal-Mart\u2019s shareholder meeting.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Wal-Mart brand,\u201d the report says, \u201cwas not built to inspire people while they shop, hold their hand while they make a high-risk decision or show them how to pull things together.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barbaro: A confidential report prepared for senior executives at Wal-Mart Stores concludes, in stark terms, that the chain\u2019s traditional strengths \u2014 its reputation for discounts, its all-in-one shopping format and its enormous selection \u2014 \u201cwork against us\u201d as it tries to move upscale. As a result, the report says, the chain \u201cis not seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}