Customers crowd a counter on the opening day of Beijing's first Wal-Mart outlet Friday, July 11, 2003. Thousands crowded the cavernous Sam's Club on the far western edge of Beijing as the world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart made its first foray into a major Chinese city after setting up 26 stores elsewhere in the country since 1996. [AP]
 
 
 

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