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Article: We ask, they answer how? Who? What? PL Buyer asks the questions, Wal-Mart's Bob Anderson answers.(Cover Story)
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- Private Label Buyer
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- October 1, 2005
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Day after day, week after week, month after month, innumerable news sources and publications generate stories regarding the happenings at the retail industry's Bentonville, Ark., behemoth--Wal-Mart Stores Inc. More often than not, media coverage speculates on the retailer's next move or strategy, or covers some sort of alleged controversy, labor issue or opposition to the company's movement into a new community. The company's growth to more than $285 billion in sales reported for 2005 and store count topping 3,700 already this year, makes it ripe for the constant scrutiny.
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Until recently when Wal-Mart Chief Executive Officer H. Lee ...