To Boost Buying Power,Wal-Mart Woos Partners

摘要

Wal-Mart Stores purchasing chief Hernan Muntaner has a dream: teaming the giant retailer with soda and snack maker PepsiCo to buy potatoes jointly for a lower price than either company can get on its own. That would allow both to earn more money on the chips and spuds they sell in Wal-Mart's supermarkets. So far, Pepsi isn't playing along.