From Wal-Mart’s senior director health business development on clinics within the store:
. . . keeping customers out of emergency rooms makes sense for Wal-Mart, whose lower-income shoppers are being squeezed by high gasoline prices and a slowing housing market.
An unexpected emergency room trip could drain a shopper of dollars they would otherwise spend at Wal-Mart, he said.










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