Walmart Germany struggled to build a strong competitive base, sustaining estimated losses of more than $1 billion. Lacking the scale of operations to create competitive advantage, and facing strong competition in a mature marketplace, in 2006 Walmart sold its German operations to a competitors Metro "We had a difficult time in Germany from the get-go," said Walmart's Amy Wyatt "looking at the international business around the world and where we would have the greatest impact on growth and inventor return , it became increasingly clear that given the German business environment, we could never obtain the scale and results we desired".That some year,Walmart announced that it was selling its Korean operations after failing to achieve successful scale and due to difficultis adjusting to the peculiarities of the Korean marketplace.