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...Walmart will raise the average salary for a store manager from $117,000 to $128,000 a year....
...That should reassure investors in Main Street USA as well as in the store chain. Walmart is a bellwether for US consumer demand....
...Walmart introduced a series of restrictions on sales of firearms last year, after a gunman with an assault-style rifle launched an attack at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people....
...The 6.1 per cent rise in third quarter operating profit reported for its US Walmart stores on Thursday was the best in eight years. Walmart has not only survived “Amazon-geddon”....
...Walmart has joined a growing list of its US retail peers and increased sales guidance for the full year, in the latest sign of tentative confidence from the sector as stores ready for the crucial festive...
...“Given 90 per cent of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store, it’s never been faster or easier to make an online return.”...
...Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, warned that earnings next year would be flat and it was slowing the pace of store openings in the US, highlighting intense competition in retail across the globe and...
...The store is just one of 154 that Walmart has shut across the US as it tries to come to grips with fiercer competition, anaemic same-store sales growth and the ever-rising shift to online shopping....
...Is the big-box store going the way of the department store?...
...Walmart has not opened a single new store since then....
...Walmart’s small stores are seeking to replicate the success of dollar discount stores such as Dollar General and Family Dollar....
...The test stores carry the Walmart.com brand and a limited range of toys and electronics as well as computers on display tables – reminiscent of an Apple store – which shoppers can use to order from Walmart...
...Walmart, the US retailer, has closed 13 stores in south-western China after police detained a number of store managers following allegations that employees labelled ordinary pork as organic....
...Walmart, the US retailer, has closed 13 stores in south-western China after police detained a number of store managers following allegations that employees labelled ordinary pork as organic, the FT reports...
...Walmart, the US retailer, has been ordered to close seven stores in south-western China after police detained a number of store managers following allegations that employees labelled ordinary pork as organic...
...They say Walmart is looking at existing retail locations for its Neighborhood Market grocery stores....
...Amy Kazmin, FT south Asia correspondent, talks to Bharti Enterprise MD Rajan Bharti Mittal about the opening of Walmart's first cash-and-carry store in India and the challenges ahead for retailers in subcontinent...
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