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June 16, 2006

Wal-Mart Stores announced that all 100,000 square-foot Wal-Mart Discount Stores will become 200,000 square-foot Wal-Mart SuperCenters around May 25, 2008 (a change that will include hundreds of the most-common Wal-Mart Discount Stores that will become the newest most-common experiment Wal-Mart SuperCenters), making it a total of over 3,500 Wal-Mart SuperCenters located anywhere in the United States.

Wal-Mart SuperCenters combine standard Wal-Mart Discount Stores with 36 full-line merchandise departments and full-line supermarkets with meat and poultry, bakery, delicatessen, frozen foods, garden produce, dairy products, and seafood departments. These stores also feature numerous specialty shops and alcove shops like: Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express, Wal-Mart Vision Center, Wal-Mart Photo Center, Wal-Mart Portrait Studio, Wal-Mart One-Hour Photo Processing, a video arcade called Wal-Mart Family Fun Center, a Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video rental shop, and a branch from a local bank area. These stores also have food courts with full-menu McDonald's plus Subway, Dunkin' Donuts, Wal-Mart Cafe and Baskin-Robbins.

Sometime around June 15, 2006, Wal-Mart Stores will cease building any additional 100,000-square-foot discount stores, but will now only build nearly 200,000-square-foot SuperCenters instead. Around May 25, 2008, there will be a total of over 3,500 Wal-Mart SuperCenters anywhere in the United States averaging 175,000 to 225,000 square-feet each, and serving 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year operations.