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June 23 - 24, 2006  Given the choice, would you rather shop Wal-Mart, Target, or K-Mart?                                        
Gender 3 Party < 40 > Investors Marital Status Race Age Income
▼ Response ▼ TOTAL Men Women GOP Dem Other < Men Men 40+ < Wom  Wom 40+ Inv Non Married Not married White Black Other 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ < 20k 20k-40k 40-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k>
Wal-Mart 48% 51% 46% 51% 48% 46% 49% 51% 55% 43% 42% 54% 48% 48% 48% 60% 38% 52% 47% 46% 46% 49% 59% 49% 56% 45% 43% 23%
Target 30% 29% 32% 30% 31% 31% 36% 27% 33% 31% 39% 23% 32% 28% 33% 15% 27% 34% 36% 33% 33% 16% 16% 29% 25% 41% 37% 63%
K-Mart 9% 8% 10% 10% 10% 7% 5% 8% 7% 11% 8% 10% 7% 12% 9% 10% 8% 6% 7% 12% 7% 13% 13% 12% 10% 5% 3% 3%
Some other store 10% 9% 10% 8% 8% 13% 6% 10% 5% 12% 10% 9% 10% 9% 8% 9% 20% 5% 8% 8% 13% 14% 9% 7% 6% 8% 13% 11%
                                                       
June 23 - 24, 2006  Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorably opinion of Wal-Mart?                              
Gender 3 Party < 40 > Investors Marital Status Race Age Income
▼ Response ▼ TOTAL Men Women GOP Dem Other < Men Men 40+ < Wom  Wom 40+ Inv Non Married Not married White Black Other 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ < 20k 20k-40k 40-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k>
Very favorable 29% 29% 29% 35% 26% 27% 25% 31% 34% 28% 25% 33% 29% 30% 29% 40% 19% 30% 28% 24% 34% 30% 38% 32% 29% 26% 23% 13%
Somewhat favorable 40% 39% 41% 39% 35% 48% 46% 37% 44% 40% 39% 41% 41% 38% 40% 43% 39% 45% 36% 40% 34% 44% 37% 37% 46% 40% 41% 44%
Somewhat unfavorable 16% 17% 16% 16% 18% 14% 8% 20% 8% 18% 21% 12% 17% 15% 19% 8% 5% 8% 26% 18% 21% 10% 9% 16% 17% 18% 22% 25%
Very unfavorable 13% 13% 13% 8% 19% 10% 21% 10% 14% 12% 14% 11% 11% 15% 11% 8% 28% 17% 10% 15% 10% 11% 13% 13% 6% 16% 13% 17%
                                                       
June 23 - 24, 2006 Generally speaking, is Wal-Mart good for the community or bad for the community?                                    
Gender 3 Party < 40 > Investors Marital Status Race Age Income
▼ Response ▼ TOTAL Men Women GOP Dem Other < Men Men 40+ < Wom  Wom 40+ Inv Non Married Not married White Black Other 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ < 20k 20k-40k 40-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k>
Good 54% 55% 54% 64% 46% 55% 57% 54% 56% 53% 50% 59% 54% 56% 54% 67% 48% 57% 54% 53% 58% 50% 64% 48% 57% 54% 47% 54%
Bad 29% 29% 30% 25% 35% 27% 31% 28% 30% 29% 34% 25% 31% 27% 31% 9% 39% 31% 31% 31% 29% 25% 22% 34% 23% 30% 44% 32%
                                                       
June 23 - 24, 2006  How often do you shop at Wal-Mart?                                              
Gender 3 Party < 40 > Investors Marital Status Race Age Income
▼ Response ▼ TOTAL Men Women GOP Dem Other < Men Men 40+ < Wom  Wom 40+ Inv Non Married Not married White Black Other 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ < 20k 20k-40k 40-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k>
Rarely or never 25% 25% 24% 21% 25% 28% 28% 24% 19% 25% 28% 21% 24% 26% 25% 21% 28% 24% 25% 23% 25% 26% 23% 19% 15% 23% 18% 56%
Occasionally 30% 34% 26% 28% 34% 28% 31% 35% 23% 27% 31% 29% 30% 30% 30% 33% 30% 27% 27% 32% 31% 33% 32% 33% 25% 37% 31% 20%
About once a month 15% 14% 16% 15% 16% 14% 11% 14% 9% 18% 16% 13% 14% 16% 15% 24% 8% 10% 14% 20% 18% 13% 14% 17% 21% 10% 13% 10%
About once a week 20% 16% 23% 26% 15% 19% 18% 16% 33% 21% 18% 22% 22% 17% 22% 11% 15% 26% 23% 16% 18% 17% 13% 22% 30% 21% 26% 13%
More than once a week 7% 6% 9% 8% 7% 7% 7% 6% 11% 8% 5% 10% 9% 5% 8% 8% 2% 9% 9% 7% 8% 4% 11% 7% 6% 7% 11% 1%
                                                       
June 23 - 24, 2006  Have you or any of your relatives ever worked at Wal-Mart?                                          
Gender 3 Party < 40 > Investors Marital Status Race Age Income
▼ Response ▼ TOTAL Men Women GOP Dem Other < Men Men 40+ < Wom  Wom 40+ Inv Non Married Not married White Black Other 18-29 30-39 40-49 50-64 65+ < 20k 20k-40k 40-60k 60k-75k 75k-100k 100k>
Yes 21% 20% 22% 24% 23% 16% 20% 20% 25% 21% 20% 22% 21% 21% 20% 22% 29% 22% 27% 15% 19% 22% 28% 27% 21% 12% 15% 12%
No 77% 78% 76% 76% 74% 83% 77% 79% 73% 77% 79% 75% 77% 78% 79% 73% 71% 75% 70% 84% 81% 76% 70% 72% 75% 88% 85% 88%