you must be a front man for Wal-Mart! This savior idea has to have been cooked up by the PR dept. as it makes very little macro economic sense. How does one save money purchasing an item when one doesn't have a job or the job is so low paying that you qualify for food stamps?

I cannot believe how Americans complains about not having enough money. Eating out at restaurants for lunch or dinner, women going to the mall to buy clothes, shoes or any other junk item they can buy with their credit card, bleaching their hair blond, buying SUVs, taking vacation trips and now Joe Blow and his trendy wife buying their expensive house--- Are you kidding me. I don't feel sorry for this country one bit.

Americans need to do a lot of growing up with a health dose of reality check. It seems like you're having a hard time adjusting to the increasingly global nature of the market. Good for China and all the other foreign countries who are smarter that most extravagant American men and women's lifestyle.

What kind of a country do you live in where the media tells you that it is the consumer who will save the economy by continuous spending. America is one big joke for the 21st century.

Walmart is just playing the game of supply and demand.  Asian country's are taking jobs from America because there is a demand for jobs over there.  In America, unemployment is relatively low.  In fact we are importing cheap labor from Mexico.  Many of there jobs were created here in America.  Soooooo....... you could make the argument that America's chief export at this time is low wage jobs.  Other country's get our low wage jobs, we get cheaper lead based toy's.   S'all good.

IF YOU CAN GO TO WAL-MART AND BUY AN ITEM FOR $ 5,00;WHY WOULD YOU WANT TOM GO MELSEWHERE;AND PAY $ 10.00??????????????????

CASE CLOSED..

THANK YOU;

DENVER,CO.

Get a clue.....Wal-Mart  all in all has damaged this country in so many ways that they control it and are making small American businesses close at a record rate in rural small town american. There will be  No MIDDLE MAN in the America soon.

How much did Wal-Mart pay for this ad spot?

I agree that most of Wal-Mart's efforts ultimately are a net benefit to American consumers.  The addition of the health clinics should only enhance that benefit.

However, the one area they fall short is in gasoline sales.  Wal-Mart should increase it's efforts in gas distribution and retail, and constantly monitor their prices to ensure that they are selling at the lowest market price.  They should bring their purchasing power to bear in this area, just as they've done in prescription drugs.  It's the increase in energy costs that consumers trade off against the goods inside their stores.

Hurray! Finally somebody in the media understands the free market system. Walmart is the consumer's best friend. It's funny how so many people hate Walmart because they're big. The reason Walmart's big is because they give people what they want!

i LOVE walmart

walmart coulda raised prices instead

and you woulda shopped there - still.

Walmart should threaten price increases

to congress as leverage to get what they want.

If congress does'nt allow them to move

into banking then they should raise prices or

threaten 1%-5% register surcharges ala Sam's club,

co-op clubs, ebay, etc.

Yes, maybe one day china sovereign wealth fund

will just buy walmart and vertically integrate the whole

enchilada.

Anthony, I can only assume you're a very clever fellow. How much Wal-mart stock did you say you owned, silly me you're too clever to slip up and say.