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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4834)	3/14/2006 2:14:43 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 220433

China should buy a stake in Wal-Mart, then let Wal-Mart build many more stores in China. Besides making the investment work, Wal-Mart would bring goods at lower costs to rural areas, increasing their standard of living. This appears to be important to China's internal agenda. It would also help build an internal market of for China's products, which will be very useful when Western consumers hit their credit card limit. The high cost of distribution is one barrier to building an internal market which can reach rural areas. Of course, China can figure how to do this (ultra low cost volume distribution) in about 5 years or less....if they want to wait ;-) One of the other really good retail distribution companies is Costco, which merged with Price Club long ago. Unfortunately, some of the founders had leftist politics, so this may make Costco unacceptable....