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PUERTO RICO
YEAR WAL-MART ENTERED: 1992
STORE COUNT:
15 stores
DISTANCE FROM SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO TO BENTONVILLE:
2,138 MILES/3,465 KM.
When it entered the Puerto Rican market in the early 1990s, Wal-Mart faced more than a dozen Kmarts on the island as well as competition from a major supermarket chain.
Puerto Rico was one of Wal-Mart's first owned operated international divisions that was genuinely located "overseas." The first Wal-Mart in Puerto Rico was a 91,000 sq. ft. conventional discount store that opened in August 1992 in the Fajardo Xtra Consumer Mall in Fajardo. It was Wal-Mart's second international arena, and WalMart entered the commonwealth a little more than a decade after it entered Mexico.
Wal-Mart's growth in Puerto Rico has been deliberate and steady. Wal-Mart operated 15 stores in Puerto Rico, including six Sam's Clubs and nine conventional discount...