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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (43680)	3/3/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 164684

I can see what you're saying. Wal-Mart's expansion into the stores I'm seeing here in LA now are as tenants. By the way, what Wal-mart did to leverage it's traffic with those strip malls is exactly the same thing Amazon is doing with the likes of Drugstore.com. The difference is that, unlike Wal-Mart, Amazon owns a piece of those stores, too!

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (43680)	3/3/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Slumdog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>>Leases are the same as debt. Even if Wal-Mart owned most of their stores, which I doubt, it's still a huge capital drain that Amazon doesn't suffer.<< Certain leases are considered to be another means of financing the acquisition of an asset. The building that is leased is shown on the asset side of the balance sheet, and is treated like any other fixed asset. The amount owed to acquire the asset is shown on the liability side of the balance sheet and is recorded as the present value of future lease payments. Treated the same as long term debt.