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Wal-Mart to buy Rema 1000? It is quite possible that the owner of the Norwegian supermarket chain Rema 1000 is negotiating with the US giant Wal-Mart, with the intention of selling its shops in Poland, according to 'Puls Biznesu'. The retailer has been looking for a buyer for its stores for about six months and Wal-Mart should fit the bill because Poland, with its market potential, would seem ideal for what is the world's biggest retail company. The newspaper considers that the UK developer Gazeley Properties' potential acquisition of a fifty hectare logistics-warehouse site, in Sochczew near Warsaw, could signal the American's interest in the Polish market, as the former is a strategic partner of Wal-Mart's. Musketeers to open one hundredth shop in Poland A consortium of French retailers, ITM, which calls itself the Musketeers, opened its one hundredth shop in the north of Poland, in Lebork on June 3rd. The shop will be part