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The news just keeps getting worse at Best Buy each day.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hammering home its low-price message with a new ad campaign hoping to lure back customers who no longer trust the world's biggest retailer to save them money.

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An East Coast snowstorm put a damper on after-Christmas shopping on Sunday, but shoppers across the rest of the country scoured clearance racks and spent gift cards during the afterglow of the best holiday season for retailers since 2007.

"The CEO was selling the hope, but now investors are looking at what the company will look like in the first half of the year," said Brian Sozzi, a chief equities analyst for research firm NBG Productions who follows the company. "Investors are digesting the reality."
"Every day, the [business] model is changing, and it goes against Best Buy," he said.