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This helped Huffy meet demand, but the company soon found that it simply could not make a profit selling bicycles at the prices that its biggest customer, Wal-Mart, was willing to pay.

On most items, prices tended to be higher in the country than in the cities, where the clustering of chain stores served to intensify competition.

Chafing under this requirement from the start, Walton routinely hitched a trailer to his car and drove from Newport into Tennessee, where he found wholesalers willing to sell at better prices than was Butler Brothers.

Catering to small-business owners and other bulk buyers, these bare-bones outlets charged wholesale prices for a wide variety of brand-name merchandise but required payment of an annual membership fee.

Basker, who found that prices fell farthest in smaller cities, where competition tends to be less intense.

This study found that prices were 13 percent lower on average in the Wal-Mart cities than in Sacramento.

Wal-Mart pretty much begins and ends with the undeniable boon of its bargain prices to consumers.

The main factor in its favor is its impact on prices, its suppressing of price inflation.

Wal-Mart in particular was pressing Huffy: It ordered 900,000 bicycles at one time, but insisted that Huffy lower its prices significantly.

Rubbermaid did raise prices and Wal-Mart did pull many of its products.

The warehouse club division promptly cut its prices across the board, and Costco responded in kind.

Wal-Mart is able to roll back prices because of the new efficiencies continuously being created by its high-tech distribution system, which minutely tracks everything from power tools to pretzels as they travel from supplier to distribution center to store at a pace no other retailer can match.

Wild Oats and Whole Foods, which are thriving despite charging premium prices for organic and prepared foods.

More to the point, because Wal-Mart is so big and so obsessively focused on parlaying low prices into market share, it has forced both its competitors and its vendors to dance to its single-minded tune, dragging down wages with prices.

Wal-Mart continues to measure its corporate manhood by the gap between its prices and those of its competitors.