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Wal-Mart steps up spring gardening sales

March 20, 2014  By The Associated Press


March 20, 2014, New York — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hoping to shake off
the winter sales doldrums with its biggest spring sales push ever.

March 20, 2014, New York — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hoping to shake off the winter sales doldrums with its biggest spring sales push ever.

The company is discounting more than 60 outdoor essentials from lawn mowers to mulch by 30 per cent to 50 per cent.

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The sale starts Friday and will run through March 29. Wal-Mart says the event was planned last summer as executives received forecasts that the winter was going to be especially harsh.

But the company made changes since then because the winter was even more severe than expected.

The company is counting on an extra boost in sales from items like garden soil as shoppers prepare to restore their gardens and outdoor living spaces hurt by a series of winter storms. Those storms chilled sales at Wal-Mart and other stores.


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