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The Wal-Mart Weekly: 4-year stock historical vs. sales growth

Welcome to the third installment of The Wal-Mart Weekly -- a new weekly column dedicated to bringing you insight, wit, facts, results, opinions and just a bit of everything else when it comes down to a very hot topic these days: Wal-Mart.

Last week I discussed my recent field trips to a local Wal-Mart Supercenter and my discovery of the inventory situation going on in the grocery section. I made it a point in my last column to really get a feel for what a regular Wal-Mart shopper goes through, and I used what I believed to be the worst case scenario just to get to the heart of the matter: Shopping for popular groceries on a Sunday evening.

This week, I decided to plunge into the retailer's sales growth over the last five years and see what its stock price had done at the same time. Results? Another interesting load of discoveries here. Join me and let's enter the labyrinth of comparisons on that, shall we?

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