Walmart: Can The Good Times Keep Rolling

bgwalker It's Good To Be King In the mass market retail landscape, few things matter more than achieving scale. Those lacking scale lose out on brand exclusivity agreements, have trade payable terms dictated to them rather than dictating them, and, perhaps most importantly, can quickly find the already-thin margins squeezed as competitors zoom in for the kill. Scale is, in large part, the reason why Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is assigned a premium valuation by investors. Of course, Walmart's scale can cut both ways ...