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...Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, abandoned its movies download service in late 2007. Velocity will change its name to Fuse Capital....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, is dipping its toes into online grocery sales, with the expansion of a home shipping service for products including Perrier water and free-trade coffee at Sam’s Club, its...
...Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a $4 plan for 30 days’ supply of commonly used generic drugs....
...Wal-Mart makes a high-profile target for local groups, which argue that the US chain has a history of wiping out small high street stores....
...Wal-Mart’s US floorspace after 45 years in business came to 600m sq ft as of October. India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
...Companies operating low-cost medical clinics in drugstores or big retail stores such as Wal-Mart are about to signal their arrival as a force in the US healthcare system by forming an industry association...
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
...And second, via ambitious plans to transform Indian food retailing that will see Bharti, in alliance with Wal-Mart Stores, open western-style hypermarkets across India....
...Most Controversial The Waltons $78.9bn, Wal-Mart Bentonville, Arkansas What began in the 1960s as a family chain of variety stores in Arkansas has morphed into a global empire with 6,500 low-cost supermart...
...Large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target and electronics retailers allfell this week on concerns that their use of heavy discounts to lure traffic would cut into their bottom line....
...Meanwhile, Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s chief executive, said in October that the retailer, which is currently testing clinics at 12 of its stores, wants to move towards setting up basic healthcare clinics in all...
...Some time soon the notoriously liberal ninth circuit federal appeals court in California will hear arguments in the case of Women v Wal-Mart (official name: Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores)....
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