Wal-Mart Expanding in Brazil

Awesome.

The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, says it will invest some 1.8bn reais ($1.1bn; £588m) to expand in Brazil.

The firm said it would open between 80 and 90 stores in 2009 in Latin America’s largest country.

Wal-Mart, which opened its first outlet in Brazil in 1995, has 318 stores there and a local workforce of 70,000.

1. yeah, walmart is getting bigger every year.

   Posted by walmart com on August 18, 2008 at 0124 hrs