Wal-Mart has experienced an upswing in financial customers in the wake of the outcry, too, and says it's gaining market share. Although Wal-Mart never followed through with a previous plan to get a federal bank charter, it currently offers affordable check cashing, options for bill payments and wiring money overseas, and pre-paid debit cards. Ironically, as sharp as anti-bank sentiment is now, Wal-Mart's been subject to plenty of negative sentiment of its own over the years, based on claims that span from driving mom-and-pop shops out of business to the ugly treatment of its workers. Maybe right now management's hoping that angry Americans are more focused on occupying Wall Street than blocking Wal-Mart stores' entry into coveted markets. Ailing Americans Wal-Mart's eyeing another unorthodox avenue: cheap health-care services.