Because 12 percent of China’s exports to the U.S. end up on Wal-Mart’s shelves, and because Wal-Mart’s trade with China accounts for 1 percent of that country’s gross domestic product, the company exerts tremendous downward pressure on prices.
By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, made by NCR, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.
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