Wal-Mart with Wal-Mart China

How does Wal-Mart China differ from your local Wal-Mart?
After comparing my local Wal-Mart Supercenter to those in China, I was surprised to find just how westernized the Chinese stores are. I am sure this has to do fully with the American corporate model they set in place. There are seventy seven Supercenters stores in China and two thousand four hundred and forty seven in US. Upon further investigation I started to find discrepancies in their recruitment process, though still nothing major. It turns out Wal-Mart managers in China are called “servant leaders” and that they recruit them directly from college. I did recently watch a couple documentaries on the treatment of employees in the manufacturing houses but the store itself was still eerily similar. I assume this is a world model they have set in place and China is not the only one that surreally similar to the US in the world.

Are the items sold in China the same as your local Wal-Mart?
Yes, of course they are. After all China produces most of Wal-Mart’s products, what they don’t produce is imported from Central America and elsewhere just like it is in the US. Don’t let the labels in Chinese fool you, they are mostly the same products with only a couple exceptions I found. I find it most interesting that there is such a lack of a Chinese influence in the store. Once again it’s probably the effect of globalization but I am used to even corporate stores having some kind of local flare.
Source-
[Wal-mart US and http://www.wal-martchina.com]
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