The Power of Everyday Low Prices

According to these retail sales reports in the WSJ from September and August, monthly retail sales at Wal-Mart ($34.4 billion in September) are about 2X the monthly sales of all of these other retailers, COMBINED ($17.5 billion):

Costco ($4.8B)
Target ($4.7B)
Macy's ($1.8B)
J.C. Penney ($1.5B)
TJX ($1.4B)
Gap ($1.2B)
Nordstrom ($517M)
Abercrombie and Fitch ($425M)
American Eagle ($311M)
Saks ($213M)
Aeropostale ($168M)
Ann Taylor (162M)
Chico's ($118M)
Hot Topic ($71M)
Zumiez ($47M)
Sharper Image ($32M)