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          certain floor and ceiling percentage limitations that were                  
          established by Wal-Mart's senior management, and that are                   
          discussed further below.  After Wal-Mart took a second inventory            
          at the store, it computed the shrinkage rate for that store                 
          similarly to the method described above, except that it used the            
          shrinkage as verified by both the first and second inventories,             
          and it used the sales for the period starting with the date the             
          store opened and ending on the date of the second inventory.  The           
          floor and ceiling limitations described below were also applied             
          to this rate.  After Wal-Mart took a third inventory at the                 
          store, it computed a shrinkage rate for that store in a fashion             
          similar to that of the first 2 years, except that it used the               
          shrinkage as verified by the first, second, and third                       
          inventories, and it used the sales for the period commencing with           
          the date the store opened and ending on the date of the third               
          inventory.  This shrinkage rate, as computed, was subjected to              
          the floor and ceiling limitations described below.                          
                After Wal-Mart took the fourth and each subsequent                    
          inventory, the retail shrinkage rate was based on a rolling                 
          average of the historical shrinkage over the last three                     
          inventories of the store.  The rate was computed by dividing the            
          amount of shrinkage at retail, as verified by the current                   
          inventory and the preceding two inventories, by the sales for the           
          period commencing with the date of the third preceding inventory            
          and ending on the current inventory date.  This shrinkage rate,             




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