How Wal-Mart Can Battle Amazon.com in e-Commerce

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Wal-Mart recently announced that it was adding lockers to many of its stores to enable same-day pickup of items ordered online. In this video, Fool contributor Chuck Saletta talks about how that strategy copycats one that Amazon.com has already launched and notes that if Wal-Mart really wants to win, it needs to think leapfrog instead.


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