Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Columns

Welcome to the 43rd installment of The Wal-Mart Weekly, a column dedicated to bringing you insight, wit, facts, results, opinions and just a bit of everything else when it comes down to a very hot topic these days: Wal-Mart.

Last week, I looked at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)’s 2007 in review and summed up all the retailing giant had going for it last year along with all the negatives against the company as well. Wal-Mart did a lot of things right in 2007, but still had to fend off daily attacks from its enemies and just about any other entity who took shots at the largest target in the world.

This week, I’ll be looking at something that just happened this past week — when Wal-Mart decided to end its year-old movie download service after middling to no success since its launch in 2006. Why didn’t the retailer have any success in the move to offering entertainment content in digital, downloadable form? Read on.

Continue reading The Wal-Mart Weekly: Wal-Mart’s ill-fated foray into digital content downloads

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