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WAL-MART'S HOLIDAY SALES PERFORMANCE IS WORST IN 6 YEARS

WakeUpWalMart.com Achieves Record Milestone During 2006 “Hope for the Holidays” Campaign

Washington D.C. - WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, began the New Year by officially announcing the group had achieved a series of record milestones during its 2006 “Hope for the Holidays” campaign, including reaching over 306,976 supporters as of December 31, 2006. In stark contrast, Wal-Mart experienced its worst holiday sales performance in 6 years - even worse than last year’s poor performance.

As a result of a mounting public image problem, worker unrest, and management woes, Wal-Mart’s same store sales for December rose 1.6% - significantly lower than last year’s disappointing 2.2% increase. In fact, over the last 6 years, Wal-Mart’s December same-store sales performance has steadily declined from 8.0% in 2001 to 1.6% in 2006. A breakdown of Wal-Mart sales performance between 2001 and 2006 is below.

“Even with unprecedented price cutting, a November decline in same-store sales, and an extremely low December comp, Wal-Mart faces the harsh reality of another poor holiday season. Wal-Mart must wake up and realize that the American people care about values, and want America’s largest employer to change for the better. The big question for Wal-Mart this year is will 2007 finally be the year that Wal-Mart realizes its image problem is now its business problem and it is time to wake up and do what is right for America? We can only hope,” said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.