1. What do we actually know about Wal-Mart?

2. Ken Stone

3. 15% or $6.6 billion

4. Gain of 30 jobs

5. Fresh produce, seafood, and home meal replacement items

6. 150 to 350

7. Merchants selling goods or services different from what Wal-Mart sells are natural beneficiaries. Merchants selling the same goods as Wal-Mart are in jeopardy.

8. Iowa

9. $124 billion or 16%

10. Fewer visits from customers

11. 20,000

12. Salmon, Shirts, and the Meaning of Low Prices

13. $4.84

14. Chile

15. 50,000 metric tons

16. Darden Restaurants

17. Harsh labor practices

18. The supervisor would slap her across the face with the pants she was sewing.

19. $16,200

20. 12,500

21. An economist who heads Terrim, Chilean foundation dedicated to promoting sustainable development in Chile.

22. Shoppers