The company says it expects to complete the upgrade of 1, 800 stores, mostly supercenters, by October.
They are designed to offer Wal-Mart priced deals to consumers in geographical locations where Supercenters are impractical.
To achieve this, the retailer has been remodeling its stores and converting its discount stores into supercenters.
The Wal-Mart Supercenters and Sam's Club stores are similar to their U.S. counterparts.
Along with its joint venture partner, Wal-Mart owns 2, 099 stores in Mexico, including 213 Walmart Supercenters and 126 Sam's Clubs.
Price sensitive shoppers at its discount stores and supercenters and urban dwellers in need of well-priced necessities close to home?
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Wal-Mart closed 446 discount stores between 2007-2011, and opened 773 new supercenters.
Simon says to expect 125 Supercenters to open this year, too.
These stores are miniature versions of the much larger Wal-Mart Supercenters.
Oppenheimer retail analyst Bernard Sosnick expects that by 2010, Wal-Mart will have 3, 000 supercenters, up from 1, 600 this year, and total company sales of half a trillion dollars.
Joe Galli made DeWalt a household name thanks to his "swarm teams, " small armies of energetic college recruits who worked Nascar races, vocational trade shows and hardware supercenters.
The retail giant, which rose to dominance with 185, 000-foot Supercenters, plans to open its first Walmart Express store in the second quarter of this year, though it won't say where.
Opening more supercenters and large format stores may be difficult for Wal-Mart due its massive presence in the U.S. Therefore, the company is now focusing its efforts on increasing the productivity of its existing stores.
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