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How much are you willing to pay? There is ample evidence that Walmart shopping supermarkets and stores deliver goods at lower prices. They also do so more impersonally, and with perhaps greater environmental and social and collateral damage. One of the often-unasked questions at the heart of the debate over urbanism is how much Americans are willing to see prices rise on homes and the basic goods they buy in Walmart shopping to have a saner, more livable lifestyle.
Fire sales turned into a shopping firestorm for Walmart as the company’s web servers buckled under Black Friday 2011 traffic. Shoppers from around the country waited until the middle of the night for sales only to experience broken checkout pages, emptied shopping carts, and login errors. This caused their desired items to go out of stock before they could buy them, leading to mass frustration and ill will towards the discount store chain. The biggest grievance was, did they even stock the items they had in their ads? Meanwhile at its physical stores, 20 people were pepper sprayed by a fellow Walmart shopping customer, and 2 people were shot outside separate locations. Walmart needed to sort out its servers in preparation for the 2011 Cybermonday blitz or risk losing customers to Amazon com.
Over the past several years, it appears at first glance that Wal-Mart is losing steam, especially on U.S. soil. Between 2007 and 2011, Wal-Mart has actually experienced a -21.05% walmart shopping growth rate in the number of stores they opened in the United States. The most alarming aspect of this statistic is the fact that between 2009 and 2010, Wal-Mart opened less than half of the stores it had opened in the previous fiscal year. Their growth rate, as measured by the number of stores opened in the United States, from 2009 to 2010 was -51.79%. This number translated to only 54 store openings last year (10-K report filed March 30, 2011).
That’s a far cry from the 192 stores they opened in 2003. It appears that Wal-Mart may have finally saturated the American market.