[Rockingham]

To a degree, Wal-Mart may be a special case in that it stumbled badly in recent years by reducing their product lines and by ill-advised cutbacks in employee hours. The result was to alienate customers by eliminating accustomed products and making them wait longer at the checkout. This helped draw customers to various smaller and more convenient low price household product retailers that usually had "Dollar" in their names.

Wal-Mart has also had to bear the expenses of upward wage pressures and of developing their Neighborhood Wal-Mart line of stores, which tend to have higher marginal operating costs. With this accumulation of ills and overseas growth tapped out, Wal-Mart can no longer command superior stock market performance.

[huldah1776]

ill-advised cutbacks in employee hours...

due to obamacare which you will never hear.

[packrat35]

Wal-Mart rarely has more than 4 registers open for at least the past 10 years. It is the MAIN reason I rarely go there.

They are penny wise and pound foolish. Their cheapskate policies are costing them money.