{"id":657,"date":"2012-10-11T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2013-04-26T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:33:18","slug":"wal-mart-pushes-to-open-smaller-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Pushes to Open Smaller Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-849\" alt=\"15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/15082408-collection-of-colorful-and-fresh-vegetables.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If Wal-Mart includes fresh produce and deli\/food to go sections like Tesco in the UK, they will have a winning model. The area around the University of Texas could use a shop like this. \u00a0The only grocery store available by foot in the area is a small, expensive shop opened by \u00a0The Co-op. \u00a0Even Wheatsville is too far to go if you live in the apartments west of Guadalupe. HEB is at Hancock Center, a couple of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens should convert their stores into Wal-Greens, add fresh fruit and vegetables and healthy take out options. That company already has great real estate in many neighborhoods. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.walgreens.com\/article_display.cfm?article_id=5554\">Here&#8217;s an article about the food oasis stores that Walgreens has opened.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2012\/10\/10\/wal-mart-to-accelerate-small-store-growth.aspx?source=ihpsitota0000001&amp;lidx=1\">Wal-Mart Pushes to Open Smaller Stores WMT<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Wal-Mart includes fresh produce and deli\/food to go sections like Tesco in the UK, they will have a winning model. The area around the University of Texas could use a shop like this. \u00a0The only grocery store available by foot in the area is a small, expensive shop opened by \u00a0The Co-op. \u00a0Even Wheatsville &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wal-Mart Pushes to Open Smaller Stores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}