{"id":1891,"date":"2009-05-02T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thirdeyesight.in\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-05-02T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T05:04:09","slug":"supermercado-in-houston-wal-mart-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myechoproject.com\/TES\/supermercado-in-houston-wal-mart-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermercado in Houston &#8211; Wal-Mart in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wal-Mart has just opened a new store Supermercado de Walmart in Houston (Texas). The Houston Chronicle reports that the Supermercado aims to reach out to the Hispanic\u00a0population, tailoring the foods more to Hispanic tastes and needs and\u00a0adding signs in Spanish. Wal-Mart is also reportedly planning to open a Mas Club this summer, based on its Sam&#8217;s Club warehouse outlet, but focussed again on Hispanic customers.\u00a0(The original article is here: <a title=\"Wal-mart gives Supermercado concept a tryout\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/6400294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wal-Mart gives its Supermercado concept a tryout<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Going by some of the negative comments attracted by the article, it is legitimate to ask: what will Wal-Mart&#8217;s existing customers think, and how will they behave?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess the answer is clearly not black or white (or beige, red, yellow or brown for that matter).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wal-Mart is segmenting and localizing its offer as a smart information-rich retailer should.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some customers who hold a tightly parochial view may feel alienated when they read about this development and may stop shopping at Wal-Mart, but most probably won&#8217;t bother as long as their local Wal-Mart continues to deliver what they want at prices they like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vibrant societies and economies are true melting pots; rather than exclude, filter and ensure conformity, they imbibe and blend newness. The fact is that real assimilation causes both to change &#8211; the ones coming in and the society \/ geography taking them in &#8211; and we have to accept that change often brings some pain with it, as expressed by the reader commenting on Houston Chronicle&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first waves of European settlers created a change when they started landing in North America 500-odd years ago, and so has every wave of immigrants since &#8211; Chinese, Japanese, German, Irish, Italian, Eastern European, Korean, Indian, Caribbean and so on. The first settlers will always be suspicious and exclusive in their approach towards the second set, the second lot of the next and so on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wave of economic homogenization driven by the post-war baby boom and infrastructure expansion was possibly one of the largest in recent history (other than the Soviet Union and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which were more political than economic). However, we&#8217;ve seen the US market grow in diversity in the last 2-3 decades &#8211; not only because of differences due to race or country of origin, but also due to geographic, economic and otherwise cultural differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today many of the diverse segments today in the US are large enough to express their unique needs, and expect them to be fulfilled. While the cookie-cutter approach served well during the years of national expansion across homogenized markets, that approach is counter-productive today. A retailer like Wal-Mart can&#8217;t be expected to ignore that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart has just opened a new store Supermercado de Walmart in Houston (Texas). The Houston Chronicle reports that the Supermercado aims to reach out to the Hispanic population, tailoring the foods more to Hispanic tastes and needs and adding signs in Spanish. Wal-Mart is also reportedly planning to open a Mas Club this summer, based on its Sam&#8217;s Club warehouse outlet, but focussed again on Hispanic customers. Going by some of the negative comments attracted by the article, it is legitimate to ask: what will Wal-Mart&#8217;s existing customers think, and how will they behave?<br \/>\nI guess the answer is clearly not black or white (or beige, red, yellow or brown for that matter).<br \/>\nWal-Mart is segmenting and localizing its offer as a smart information-rich retailer should.<br \/>\nSome customers who hold a tightly parochial view may feel alienated when they read about this development and may stop shopping at Wal-Mart, but most probably won&#8217;t bother as long as their local Wal-Mart continues to deliver what they want at prices they like.<br \/>\nToday many of the diverse segments today in the US are large enough to express their unique needs, and expect them to be fulfilled. While the cookie-cutter approach served well during the years of national expansion across homogenized markets, that approach is counter-productive today. 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