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Wal-mart's Size And Scale Is So Vast They Literally Have The Ability To Change The Face Of The Entire Country. If Wal-mart Were To Make A Decision Tomorrow To Refuse To Sell A Single Product Made With Partially Hydrogenated Oils, For Example, We'd Probably See Rates From Heart Disease Decline A Few Years Later. That's How Powerful Wal-mart Is.

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Wal-mart's Size And Scale

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Wal-mart's Size And Scale Is So Vast They Literally Have The Ability To Change The Face Of The Entire Country. If Wal-mart Were To Make A Decision Tomorrow To Refuse To Sell A Single Product Made With Partially Hydrogenated Oils, For Example, We'd Probably See Rates From Heart Disease Decline A Few Years Later. That's How Powerful Wal-mart Is.

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