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...Henry Waxman and Elijah Cummings, Democratic congressmen investigating allegations that Walmart paid bribes to open new stores in Mexico, disclosed the information in a letter to Walmart’s chief executive...
...Northern Foods, the food producer, struck a deal with the British arm of US retailer Wal-Mart to slash the price of one of its pizzas lines in return for two things: first, the promise of a spike in sales...
...But Wal-Mart provided some cheer....
...Asda, owned by Wal-Mart of the US, Wm Morrison, Sainsbury, the Co-operative and Waitrose are likely to be interested in a tranche of stores....
...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...
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...The Hemet store has attracted intense interest from Tesco’s competitors including a group of five note-taking visitors from Wal-Mart, which operates a Supercenter with groceries less than two miles away....
...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....
...On Thursday, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood launched an online petition calling on Wal-Mart to close the site down, encouraging its members to send emails to Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s chief executive...
...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....
...Linda says asking you for adviceon how to enhance Wal-Mart and Asda’s image was one of my great decisions. And don’t we all just get on so well?...
...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)....
...“We think these stores would measure up very well with both Wal-Mart and Target, while providing a trade-up,” said Chris Brathwaite, Sears’ spokesman....
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