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Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) logoWal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is reducing the amount of capital expenditures for 2007 in light of reduced expansion of the company's Supercenters in the domestic market as it attempts to eke out more sales from existing stores.

Well, as I've stated for over a year here at BloggingStocks, this is a strategy that the retailer was forced to take. It's already saturated many U.S. markets, and opening stores for the sake of opening them just won't cut it for growth any longer. The problem is that I still don't see the changes that will make sales growth happen in existing stores. Doug McIntyre even wrote about the retailer closing some stores about a year ago. What's in store for the retailer is anyone's guess at this point.

As a result, the world's largest retailer will cut its capex amount down in the range of $14.7 billion to $15.4 billion, down from a figure of $17 billion earlier in the year. Wal-Mart's chief administrative officer, John Menzer, stated that the retailer still has a goal to "beat" the $15.5 billion figure, however. With Wal-Mart's recent unwavering plan to continue opening stores in the face of declining same-store sales at existing locations, this admission was a bit overdue, to put it mildly.

The retailer also reiterated capex plans for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, saying it would spend $13.5 billion to $15.2 billion each year. Along with that, the retailer expects square footage growth (new stores, in other words) to come in at 6% for the current fiscal year, with a 5% to 6% figure for the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years as well.

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