Wal-Mart reports February sales

09 Mar '07

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Guidance:
Comparable store sales in the United States for the March five-week period are estimated to be between 1 and 2 percent, said Tom Schoewe, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Detail on Comparable Sales Fuel Impact:
Comparable sales that are presented in this release exclude the impact of fuel sales in the Company's Sam's Club segment. Fuel sales impacted the Sam's Club and total U.S. comparable sales figures for the four-week period ending Mar. 2, 2007, by -0.6 and -0.1 percentage points, respectively.

Including the impact of fuel sales, the Sam's Club and total U.S. comparable sales figures for the four-week period ending Mar. 2, 2007, would have been 3.3 and 0.8 percent, respectively.

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