JOHN YDSTIE, host: Business news starts with Mal-Mart, hoping for a happy holiday season.</s>JOHN YDSTIE, host: Heading into the holiday season, Wal-Mart says it will look at adjusting its mix to make up for slumping same-store sales in October. The retailer's sales grew only half a percent after earlier predictions that sales would jump between 2 and 4 percent. Wal-Mart will issue its full sales release on Thursday.
Heading into the holiday season, Wal-Mart says it will look at adjusting its product mix to make up for slumping same-store sales in October. The retailer's sales grew only half-a-percent last month, after earlier predictions that sales would jump between two and four percent.