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Triple-team.


As U.S. retailer Wal-Mart's Mexican Mexican

named after or originating in Mexico.


Mexican axolotl
see ambystomamexicanum.

Mexican beaded lizard
(Heloderma horridum
 unit Walmex Wal-Mart de Mexico, is a Latin American blue-chip company, a majority of which is owned by the American retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. It has been traded at the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1977 [1].  aggressively lowers prices and continues to whack whack - According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context.  its competitors, three of them are banding together to better compete with the growing threat. Grupo Gigante, Organization Soriana, and Comercial Mexicana Comercial Mexicana is a Mexican hypermarket group, which features stores similar to those owned by Wal-Mart in the United States or Carrefour in France. It is part of the Controladora Comercial Mexicana Group which also owns the local Costco warehouse franchise and Restaurantes  are joining forces in hopes they can lower costs. The retail chains will remain independent, but they will combine some purchasing, warehousing and distribution operations to improve leverage with suppliers, ultimately reducing consumer prices. The three retailers said that they do not plan to merge the rest of their operations.
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Title Annotation:Grupo Gigante S.A. de C.V., Organization Soriana, and Comercial Mexicana; Panorama
Comment:Triple-team.(Panorama)(Grupo Gigante S.A. de C.V., Organization Soriana, and Comercial Mexicana)
Publication:Latin Trade
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2003
Words:87
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