"Wal-Mart is the greatest thing that ever happened to low income Americans. They can stretch their dollars and afford things they otherwise couldn't." - W. Michael Cox, Chief Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, The New York Times, December 2003. Wal-mart is as synonymous with daily American life as Coca Cola, apple pies and baseball games. Rarely will you find an individual who has not graced the aisles of a Wal-mart store. Wal-mart, which was first …showed first 75 words of 794 total…

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