Wal-Mart is claiming its decision to drop nearly 1,000 magazines is part of its recent “green” initiative. Incidentally, as far back as October, 2006 Wal-Mart had “analyzed sales performances by title for every individual retail store and calculated the appropriate allocation for each store to support sales and minimize returns.” So basically, if people who shopped at Wal-Mart bought the New Yorker, Wal-Mart would be thinking of another kind of green.