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...here, all fascinating but not pretty. So some residents aren't sure that the buses will ever come rolling in or the hotels ever reopen. "You ask the average person on the street what Cairo needs," says Mayor James Wilson, "and they'll say a McDonald's and a Wal-Mart...
...think really big. In the next 10 or 20 years, what company could become so mammoth we'd look back and chuckle at the notion that we actually once considered GM or Wal-Mart a sizable outfit? It's possible to imagine a few candidates--but you have to crank your imagination surprisingly hard. Here's why: as the world's largest company, Wal-Mart this fiscal year will take inclose to $200 billion in revenue. Think for a minute about how much money that is. If you sold something expensive, like cars averaging $20,000, you'd have...
Despite GM's amazing record, we can be quite confident that the company will not lead the FORTUNE 500 we publish next April. Barring calamity or another jump in oil prices, the new champ will be Wal-Mart, already the world's largest retailer by a mile. Like some cyborg athlete, Wal-Mart moves at a pace that would kill most of its competitors and somehow keeps it up while growing bulkier...
...hate to sound unimaginative, but you know who's easy to picture as the world's largest business 10 years from now, maybe even 20? Wal-Mart. It's been growing around 20% a year, and while extrapolation is always hazardous, if you're at $200 billion a year, growing 20% annually--or even 10%--you are extremely hard to catch. Wal-Mart is expanding aggressively around the world, as it must. Most important, it owns by far the most advanced back-end infotech system--for managing inventory, logistics, working capital, customer data--in retailing. Most people wouldn't suspect...
...Cost of Wal-Mart lawn chairs used by B-2 pilots for power naps during 30-hr. missions to Kosovo...