date:Feb 27, 2013
business to be flat with last year. That represents a slowdown from the 1% increase in the fourth quarter.
The results come a little more than a year after Wal-Mart's U.S. namesake business turned a corner by reemphasizing low prices and restocking stores with thousands of basic items that it had gotten rid of in an overzealous bid to reduce clutter.
During the third quarter of 2011, the division reversed nine straight quarters of declines in revenue at stores open at least a year, considered