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After reading several articles about Walmart, our group has decided to invest in the company due to its performance in the stock market. According to the stock quotes, even though the economy is grinding to a halt, Walmart's price has been increasing gradually over the last few years. One article that supports our reasoning to invest in Walmart involves the health care plan. Three companies including Walmart are likely to benefit from the law that recently went into affect. Since it is a a provider of in-store clinics, Walmart will be expanding many of their services to other stores around the nation. Walmart's policies and wages have also put it in a good place. Another article "In a praise of Walmart" states that there is a "big rush to get jobs in Walmart", a primary reason being that it pays employees an average of $10 per hour, which is much higher than the nation's average minimum wage rates.

Based on the article "Best Buy, Wal-Mart win most of Circuit City's share: NPD" by By Andria Cheng, MarketWatch after circuit city shut down wal-mart and best buy have been taking up circuit city's shares. an now more wal-marts are being build on places were circuit city one's stood. also according to the article "analysts said Best Buy is also facing growing competition from Wal-Mart, which continues to increase its expansion in electronics and has told MarketWatch it plans to sell 3-D TVs before the holiday season this year." so and eventhought bestbuy is currently investing in more shares of technology the wal-mart, wal-mark continues to catch up to best buy, for example "Best Buy increased its share of the flat panel television market by 5.2 percentage points, followed by Wal-Mart's 3.2 points. Best Buy also gained 5.5 percentage points in its share of the notebook computers while Wal-Mart reaped 2.3 points."

-Alexandra Yepifanova