Wal-Mart To Open 2nd. Efficiency Store

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced yesterday the opening of its second generation of High-Efficiency stores that will use 25 percent less energy than the baseline Wal-Mart Supercenter. The first store will open in Romeoville, Ill., on January 23.

The store combines what the company has learned from its successful first generation High-Efficiency stores with new state-of-the-art technologies. In addition to saving energy, the new stores will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by lowering refrigerant by 90 percent.