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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris L. Joining me in studio this week for Motley Fool One, Jason Moser,

for Motley Fool Income Investor James Early, and for Million Dollar Portfolio Ron Gross.

Good to see you, Gents.

I get it.

We got the latest deals in the beverage industry, the restaurant industry, and more.

We've got Frekenomics authors. Stephen Dubner, as our guest this week, and as always,

we give an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin this week with retail, big cross-section of retailers reporting earnings this week,

including Nordstrom, JC Penny, Coles, and Kate Spade, as well as the biggest retailer of them all, Ron Wal-Mart.

Which shares down this week after first quarter profit fell 5% and maybe more troubling,

fifth straight quarter of same-store sales in the US falling.

You can't blame that on weather.

Well, you can partly, but retail's tough right now.

Definitely almost across the board, but perhaps Wal-Mart is the poster child for it.

Continuing, as you said, quarterly declines, especially the US business, really, really weak.

They're making moves to try to right-size the business by going to some of those smaller stores

to try to compete better with the dollar stores or the drug stores and some of the more discounted stores.

But it is tough. They have a lot of competition, online competition, chief among them,

and it's not going to be easy to right-size that big issue.

What are you going to do your part, Ron, and actually go into a Wal-Mart?

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