How Wal-Mart Is Shaping Up SPRUCING UP STORES By improving displays, reducing out-of-stock items, and speeding checkouts, it's boosting performance from stores DRIVING DOWN COSTS In 2 1/2 years, Wal-Mart has cut $2 billion from inventory, leading to fewer markdowns and less cluttered stores FINDING NEW GROWTH Wal-Mart is adding more than 100 ''supercenters'' a year, selling food and general merchandise, and expanding overseas DATA MINING It's using information about customers to create more effective store displays and ad circulars Return to main story

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