Wal Mart to expand its offerings in electronics

To keep up with the competition, Wal-Mart is expanding its selection of electronics starting next week.The roll out will include more big name brands of TVs like LG, which will be available at Wal-Mart for the first time, a larger selection of Blu-ray players, smartphones and other gadgets. So expect to see more TVs with the latest technology like Internet connection, Web-connected Blu-ray players and home networking equipments.
For smartphones, the new effort will focus on carrying the latest and trendiest ones as soon as they hit the marketplace accompanied with more mobile broadband plans.
Talking about service, part of Wal-Mart strategy includes offering movies download through the Vudu home video service that it acquired earlier this year.
The Internet-connected TV and Blu-ray player brands to be available at Wal-Mart will include Vizio, Samsung, Sony and later this year, Sanyo and Emerson, will also be added to the lineup of Internet-ready TVs to be sold at Wal-Mart according to CNET.com.

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