Former Operations
- Broadstreet Financial Services Corporation (d/b/a Bank of Wal-Mart) was tentatively to be headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and was to operate as an Industrial Bank to processing credit, debit card and electronic check transactions for the Wal-Mart stores. The bank was not to be open to the public and they did not intend to open or operate any branches. According to a Wal-Mart spokesman it was estimated that the company would have saved $245 million in costs by opening its own bank. On March 16, 2007 Wal-Mart announced that it had officially withdrawn its application with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions.
- Bud's Discount City
- dot Discount Drugs
- Helen's Arts and Crafts
- Hypermart USA (joint venture, prototype store that led to Supercenters)
- McLane Company (acquired in 1990, sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2003)
- OneSource nutrition centers
- Save-Co Home Improvement Center
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