Wal-mart is gearing up to dominate the grocery business. The retailer's smaller-format stores, called neighborhood markets, are a major threat to traditional supermarkets like whole food, kroger, and trader joe's, and they are expanding rapidly, according to moody's analysts.
The markets focus on three of wal-mart's strongest categorise-grocerise, pharmacies, and fuel-and they are more conveniently located to city centers, whereas supercenters are typically located on city outskirts.