Wal-Mart Steps on the Gas

Wal-Mart is accelerating the pace of its store openings in China. It will open one new store about every three weeks this year, compared to Carrefour's pace of one a month.

Carrefour is bigger than Wal-Mart in China. But Wal-Mart is bigger than Carrefour.

Wal-Mart's global sales was $285 billion - three times that of Carrefour.

And...and...Wal-Mart purchased $18 billion in products from Chinese manufacturers.

Carrefour may be leading Wal-Mart in China now, but not for long.

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