Is Walmart in Trouble?   Walmart (NYSE: WMT) shares took a hit
recently due to a leaked in-house memo by mid-level executive
Walmart VP Jerry Murray, describing the mega-retailer’s
February's sales as, "are a total disaster," and that February’s
results were Walmart’s worst for any month in the past 7 years.
Is Wal-Mart in trouble, or is this just a case of, as Wal-Mart's
PR department claims, delayed tax returns due to deadlock over
the fiscal cliff pushing back tax filing dates and subsequently
tax refunds for Wal-Mart's target demographic?  In this article
we'll examine The House That Walton Built. We'll dig through the
company's strengths and weaknesses, and note the opportunities
and threats facing the biggest of the Big Box retailers.     •
Being the biggest single privately owned bulk buyer of many
unprocessed and finished goods throughout the world results in
the world's lowest prices in bulk.   • If there were a “Republic
of WalMart”, its revenues would make the corporation the 32rd
largest country