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To: kech who wrote (177663)	8/29/2006 8:54:25 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793824

A family of Four could easily spend $10,000 a year at Wal-Mart I can imagine some families doing that. Hard for me to imagine the average family doing that. It's also hard for me it imagine that Wal-Mart is 25% cheaper than anyplace else. Ten percent, maybe. Just googled and found the source for that number. >>Prof. Jerry Hausman of MIT has found that when Wal-Mart enters a local market, food prices at all area retailers drop about 25 percent. According to a study by Global Insight, the average house- hold saves over $2,300 per year shopping at Wal-Mart. $2,300 a year. << download.premiereradio.net. I knew they didn't sell batteries and CDs for 25% less. As for groceries, there's such a small profit margin on them...