A thriving grocery chain provides a telling contrast with wal-mart.
一家蒸蒸日上的食杂连锁店与沃尔玛形成鲜明对照。
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Esther van der wal.
编辑按：这篇文章转载自esthervan der Wal的博客。
A surprise awaited them in Wal-Mart.
一件意想不到的事情正在沃尔玛里等待着他们。
Better stock control helped Wal-Mart to reduce its expenses by $2 billion in 1997.
库存管理的改善使沃尔玛公司在1997年减少了20亿美元的开支。
Toyota, Wal-Mart, DuPont, M&S and General Electric have made tackling environmental wastes a key economic driver.
丰田、沃尔玛、杜邦、玛莎百货和通用电气都已将处理环境废弃物作为一个关键的经济驱动因素。
Female economists agree with men that Europe has too much regulation and that Wal-mart is good for society.
女性经济学家同意男性的观点，即欧洲监管过多，以及沃尔玛对社会有益。
Just as internet shopping forced Wal-mart and Tesco to adapt, so online sharing will shake up transport, tourism, equipment-hire and more.
正如网络购物迫使沃尔玛和特斯科做出调整一样，网络共享也将改变交通、旅游、设备租赁等更多的行业。
Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal mart, do not have their own recycling programs.
以百思买为例，由于其最大的两个竞争对手亚马逊和沃尔玛没有自己的回收项目，百思买一直承担着最大份额的电子垃圾量。
At the Shenzhen Wal-Mart, the buzzword is "retailtainment".
深圳沃尔玛有句行话叫做“零售娱乐”。
Should we have testing in Wal-Mart?
我们要在沃尔玛设检测点么？
我们也看到了沃尔玛。
沃尔玛就是一个很好的例子。
The world does not need another Wal-Mart.
世界不需要另一个沃尔玛。
The agreement included no admission of guilt by Wal-Mart.
不过沃尔玛在这份和解协议中并没有承认其有过错。
So are big employers like General Motors and Wal-Mart.
通用汽车和沃尔玛这样的大型用人单位也是如此。
Wal-Mart, America's biggest retailer, has had a dismal November.
美国最大的零售商沃尔玛，十一月的销售状况也不如人意。
Successes of businesses like Wal-Mart were the best manifestation of this era.
成功的商业企业例如沃尔玛在这一时期表现突出。
Wal-Mart offered a dozen different brands of toothpaste, for instance.
举例来说，沃尔玛超市供应的牙膏品牌就有十几种之多。
Wal-Mart's traffic is very encouraging.
沃尔玛的客流量非常令人振奋。
Wal-Mart's critics dismiss the move as a publicity stunt.
批评沃尔玛的人士驳斥这一举措纯属哗众取宠的花招。
The technology enabled Wal-Mart to change the business model of retailing.
这项技术让沃尔玛改变了零售的业务模式。
Wal-Mart isn't doing especially well in America but Wal-Mart International is booming. And Wal-Mart is hiring like mad outside the US.
沃尔玛在美国本土的业绩其实并不是很出色，但是沃尔玛的国际业务却欣欣向荣，同时它在美国以外的地区也在疯狂创造工作岗位。
I was in Wal-Mart on Easter, and I saw graffiti Easter eggs.
复活节那天，我在沃尔玛超市看到了复活节彩蛋涂鸦。
Now Wal-Mart has taken the class issue to the Supreme Court.
眼下，沃尔玛将集团诉讼是否成立的问题提到了最高法院。
Each year 93% of American households shop at Wal-Mart at least once.
93%的美国家庭每年在沃尔玛至少消费一次。
Almost all of the people who worked for Wal-Mart owned some of its stock.
几乎所有为沃尔玛工作的人都拥有一些该公司的股份。
Affluent shoppers became price conscious and discovered Wal-Mart's prices were hard to beat.
富裕的顾客开始关注价格，他们发现沃尔玛的价格低到无人能及。
Unlike most stores, Wal-Mart thrived when the Great Recession struck in late 2007.
与大多数商店不同，2007年晚些时候沃尔玛很兴旺。
After struggling for years, Wal-Mart withdraws from Germany.
数年打拼之后，沃尔玛决定退出德国。
After struggling for years, Wal-Mart withdraws from Germany.
数年打拼之后，沃尔玛决定退出德国。
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