when Walmart began to expand internationally, it had to decide which countries to target.
Although the European retail market was large, to succeed there Walmart would have had to take market share from established competitors.
instead, Walmart deliberately selected emerging markets as it starting point for international expansion.
it targeted nations with large , growing population.
and in Asia it aimed at China.
because the company lacked the organizational, managerial, and financial resources to simultaneously pursue all of these markets,
Walmart pursued a very deliberate entry strategy for the emerging markets, focusing first on the America rather than the more culturally and geographically distant Asian marketplace.