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"Potatoes are cheaper, 78 fen (12 U.S. cents) per half-kilogram," said the woman, who would not give her name, but said she worked in the service industry. Wal-Mart reopened its 13 stores here after being forced to shut them after Chongqing authorities discovered branches of the world's largest retailer selling regular pork labeled and priced as organic pork. Authorities also arrested two Wal-Mart employees as a result of the investigation. A Chongqing government spokesman said last week that another 25 remain under investigation. Analysts played down the long-term impact on Wal-Mart's Chinese operations. "I expect this will have only a short-term impact (on Wal-Mart's reputation). Customers will continue to shop at Wal-Mart due to the prime location of its stores," said Jason Yuen, a retail analyst at UOB Kay Hian Research in Hong Kong. FOOD SAFETY CONCERNS The pork mislabeling was the latest in a string of 21 violations dating back to 2006 and authorities, who said they were dissatisfied with Wal-Mart's previous responses, ordered a two-week closure of all the chain's stores in the city. Many of the earlier infractions were vague, such as lemon candy, women's jackets or washing machines that "did not meet standards," according to the Administration of Industry and Commerce's Chongqing Bureau. But some citations, including selling dairy products and juice after expiration dates, evoked food safety worries, a keen concern in a country that has seen repeated scandals involving food tainted with toxic ingredients. Wal-Mart, which has 353 stores in China and recently celebrated its 15th anniversary in the country, did not protest the closures and says it used the two-week shutdown to strengthen its monitoring processes and training. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Wal-Mart China also said it has created a "fast food inspection lab" in its stores. "Wal-Mart is committed to Chinese customers, and is dedicated to compliance with all the standards and requirements," said company spokesman Anthony Rose in the statement. Wal-Mart China's CEO, Ed Chan, and its head of human relations, resigned last week, but the company did not link it to the store problems and said that both left for personal reasons. The Administration for Industry and Commerce said on Monday it would start a three-month food safety inspection program, sending inspectors to Wal-Mart and other hypermarket chains to promote a safe food environment. LONG LINES, NO ORGANIC PORK Wal-Mart staff at three of the reopened stores said the crowds on Tuesday were considerably larger than usual. At all three, shoppers snapped up large containers of soy sauce, cooking oil and rice, which were on sale. They examined eggs, with the farm's name stamped on each one, selected shelled peanuts one by one from a giant pile, and gutted fresh rabbits themselves at a large table. Half an hour after the Jiulongpo store opened, 13 of the food section's 48 checkout lines were humming. One lengthy queue of some 80 people snaked around displays with people lined up to buy grapefruit-like pomelos. "They're so cheap," said Lu Zhongxiu, a 53-year-old retired purchasing agent who picked up half a dozen. "In my neighborhood, they're 3 yuan per 500 grams. These are only 3.50 yuan each, and they're at least a kilogram." Lu's cart was loaded down with more than she could carry, but she said she would take the Wal-Mart store's free shuttle bus home. Conspicuously absent from displays at Jiulongpo was organic pork, which triggered the latest Wal-Mart crisis. "It's very hard to obtain," said a Wal-Mart worker with the name tag Taiyong. "You have to produce it up in the mountains. 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