I voted that they would succeed but I have never been a fan of WalMart and its policies. Their products are not the same as the more expensive "identical" products -- if you look at the pet food scare in detail, it is the named products primarily in the discount stores that had problems, not the named products in the "regular" or upscale grocery stores.

It is not just the buying in huge bulk that saves money for Wal-Mart so they can offer things for a lower price but because of their size they can ask for lower prices from the manufacturer but then the manufacturer "cuts corners" to be able to offer the "same" product at a lower price to them so they'll buy a zillion. Anyone who has had accounting knows about just-in-time supply, LIFO and FIFO, etc.; manufacturers constantly buying ingredients, the ingredient prices fluxuate and there's a fluxuating price/quality aspect also. Wal-Mart always takes the bottom price so they can offer an item the cheapest but sometimes that means there will be a cut in quality also. Who knows when? I don't want a cut in quality with my food and not know about it! Fruits and vegetables are too often picked unripened and then subjected to ripening agents, etc. so we can have them "fresh" at the grocery store. Processing and shipping is less expensive that way. Because that happens too often even in the "good" grocery stores in my area, I'm quite sure it happens even more often for a giant like Wal-Mart. I'd rather only be able to afford only 1 piece of "real" fruit than 10 pieces that were over "processed" in ways I have no/incomplete knowledge of. Our food industry brought us corn syrup and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil because they were "cheap" and easy and those are now being seen as the cause of our obesity and medical problems. I'd rather starve than eat cheap "food".