On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:51:48 GMT, "carl mciver"
wrote:

Wal-Mart
works closely with its suppliers to both push and pull them into efficient
logistics, which is one of the reasons you would be hard pressed to find a
Wal-Mart warehouse anywhere, since all of their inventory is almost always
in transit from the manufacturer to the stores. Except for near Christmas,
when every Wal-Mart rents dozens of shipping containers for storage to keep
up with the massive flow of goods flying out of the stores.

I won't comment on the good or bad of WalMart. But I can't let this
incorrect statement stand unchallenged.

The latest info I could find was 2001. There were 78 WM distribution
centers in operation. The only states not within a 200 mile radius
were Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.