{"id":577,"date":"2005-08-15T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=577"},"modified":"2006-10-08T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T10:14:23","slug":"595-of-wal-mart-and-carrefour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"[575] Of Wal-Mart and Carrefour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. I&#8217;ve just found out that out there in the jungle, rumor is out and about that <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/wal-mart\">Wal-Mart<\/a> is trying to take over <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/carrefour\">Carrefour<\/a>. Both giants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/facesinthenews\/2005\/08\/15\/wmt-carrefour-retail-cx_cn_0815autofacescan03.html\">have denied the rumor<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what kind of giant would be born if that rumor were true. Wal-Mart, already the world&#8217;s largest company, buying out French giant Carrefour &#8211; that&#8217;s just unfathomable. What would be more unthinkable is that a French company is being bought by an Uncle Sam Arkansas-based retailer.<\/p>\n<p>But if it were true, the marriage would offer a huge economies of scale to Wal-Mart. That alone would render other competing retailers as ants waiting to be squashed upon.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness all these are mere hearsays. Else, the next time anybody goes to Paris, they would need a Wal-Martian visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. I&#8217;ve just found out that out there in the jungle, rumor is out and about that Wal-Mart is trying to take over Carrefour. Both giants have denied the rumor, however. Imagine what kind of giant would be born if that rumor were true. Wal-Mart, already the world&#8217;s largest company, buying out French giant Carrefour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}