Merchants understand that reducing energy consumption can provide stores with a competitive edge in the tight margin food retailing business and announcements are made almost daily to herald the opening of the latest green building. One of the latest along that line comes from Wal-Mart, which opened a Supercenter in Las Vegas this week that uses a new cooling technology that promises to reduce energy consumption in the store up to 45 percent. Where does energy cost reduction rank among retailer priorities today?

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