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September 09, 2011

"It plays to a need that's out there."

- MADISON RILEYmanaging director of Kurt Salmon, a retail consulting firm, after Wal-Mart announced that it is bringing back layaway for some merchandise this holiday season
June 01, 2011

"Once Wal-Mart enters your economic system, it's like having a really strong and virulent weed or fish. They come in and totally change the environment, and other species die out. "

- SEERAJ MOHAMEDdirector of an economic research unit at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, on the American multinational corporation's arrival to South Africa
November 15, 2006

"Wal-Mart is coming out with their own wine. And McDonald's is bringing back the McRib sandwich. It looks like Kevin Federline is going to have a nice Thanksgiving after all."

- Jay Lenowith a quick one-liner on Britney Spears' estranged husband

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