Walmart wants to sell more clothes

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People buy food at Walmart but they're not buying the superstore's clothes. "Wal-Mart had some trouble getting shoppers into the rest of the store," says the New York Times. “It’s something that we’ve stumbled with over the last several quarters and we’re not happy with,” Charles M. Holley Jr., the chief financial officer, said in a conference call, reports the Times. “It does start with basics, and for us to be able to sell anything that’s fashionable at all, we really have to get basics down first.” [NYT]