SC 13G: Schedule filed to report acquisition of beneficial ownership of 5% or more of a class of equity securities by passive investors and certain institutions

SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No.
Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated
Common Stock
Cusip # 931142103


Cusip # 931142103
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 9,039,094
Item 6: 14,600
Item 7: 138,561,002
Item 8: 14,600
Item 9: 138,575,752
Item 11: 6.17%
Item 12: HC




Cusip # 931142103
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 24,600
Item 6: 14,600
Item 7: 138,561,002
Item 8: 14,600
Item 9: 138,575,752
Item 11: 6.17%
Item 12: IN



Cusip # 931142103
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: None
Item 6: None
Item 7: 138,561,002
Item 8: None
Item 9: 138,575,752
Item 11: 6.17%
Item 12: IN



SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)


Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:

Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated

Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

702 Southwest 8th St
Bentonville, AR 72716

Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:

FMR Corp.

Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None, Residence:

82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

Item 2(c). Citizenship:

Not applicable

Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:

Common Stock

Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:

931142103

Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b) and the
person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company in accordance
with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See Item 7).

Item 4. Ownership

(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
138,575,752

(b) Percent of Class:
6.17%

(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:

(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote:
9,039,094

(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote:
14,600

(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
138,561,002

(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of:
14,600




Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person.

Various persons have the right to receive or the power to
direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the
sale of, the common stock of Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated. No
one person's interest in the common stock of Wal-Mart Stores
Incorporated is more than five percent of the total outstanding
common stock.

Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired
the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company.

See attached Exhibit(s) A, B, and C.

Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group.

Not applicable, see attached Exhibit A.

Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.

Not applicable.

Item 10. Certification.

By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in
the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the
purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and
were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purpose or effect.


Signature

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this
Schedule 13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial
ownership of the common stock of Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated
at December 31, 1997 is true, complete and correct.


February 14, 1998
Date



/s/Eric D. Roiter
Signature



Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of
Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by
and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct
and indirect
subsidiaries




SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)

Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, Fidelity
Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an investment
adviser registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
is the beneficial owner of 126,075,308 shares or 5.61% of the common stock
outstanding of Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated ("the Company") as a result of
acting as investment adviser to various investment companies registered under
Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity, and the
funds each has sole power to dispose of the 126,075,308 shares owned by the
Funds.

Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman of FMR Corp., has
the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by
the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines
established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as
defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 11,781,794 shares or 0.52% of the common stock outstanding
of the Company as a result of its serving as investment manager of the
institutional account(s).

Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its control of Fidelity
Management Trust Company, each has sole dispositive power over 11,781,794
shares and sole power to vote or to direct the voting of 8,335,194 shares, and
no power to vote or to direct the voting of 3,446,600 shares of common stock
owned by the institutional account(s) as reported above.

Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family and trusts for their benefit
are the predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of FMR Corp.,
representing approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson
3d owns 12.0% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of FMR Corp. and Abigail
P. Johnson is a Director of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all other
Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Class B shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of
Class B shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock
and the execution of the shareholders' voting agreement, members of the
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to
form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp. The number of shares of
common stock of the Company reported herewith includes 39,350 shares or 0.00%
of common stock owned directly by Edward C. Johnson 3d or in trusts for the
benefit of Edward C. Johnson 3d or an Edward C. Johnson 3d family member for
which Edward C. Johnson 3d serves as trustee.

Edward C. Johnson 3d has sole voting and dispositive power over 24,600
shares, shared voting and dispositive power over 14,600 shares, and no voting
or dispositive power over 150 shares.

Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crowlane, Hamilton,
Bermuda, and various foreign-based subsidiaries provide investment advisory
and management services to a number of non-U.S. investment companies (the
"International Funds") and certain institutional investors. Fidelity
International Limited is the beneficial owner of 679,300 shares or 0.03% of
the common stock outstanding of the Company. Additional information with
respect to the beneficial ownership of Fidelity International Limited is shown
on Exhibit B, page 1.


SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)


Pursuant to instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G, this Exhibit has been
prepared to identify Fidelity International Limited, Pembroke Hall, 42 Crow