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...“They have an uncomplicated mandate to entertain, and I think that that has led to charges of them being like a Walmart because they have so much of everything, and they don’t have a particular line or objective...
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...Target’s gain year-to-date has beaten Walmart’s performance....
...These include UK/Prussia v France at Waterloo in 1815, UK/France v Germany between 1914 and 1918 and France/Germany v UK in Brussels ever since 1973....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...Bennett LeBow, a tobacco billionaire who invested in Borders in May, holds a similar-sized stake, and serves as non-executive chairman....
...In 2010, Borders also won backing from Bennett LeBow, another billionaire investor who is now its chairman, and who also controls a similarly sized stake....
...His father helped found Stephens Inc, which ranked at one time among the biggest investment houses outside Wall Street and was behind Walmart’s initial public offering....
...The Supreme Court will rule, not on the merits of the case, known as Dukes v Walmart, but on Walmart’s claim that the class is too broadly constituted, and that the complaints should be brought on a more...
...Borders, the struggling US book retailer, said on Friday that it has received a $25m cash injection from Bennett LeBow, the billionaire chairman of Vector, the tobacco holding company, who will become its...
...The case, Dukes v Walmart, was originally brought in the names of seven former female employees, but includes affidavits from some 120 Walmart employees, arguing that the company’s male-dominated culture...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...Dundee is not the only place pinning hopes on the V&A....
...“This is a wake up call for the equity bulls and the V shaped recovery bulls.”...
...“Currencies are a key driver of Japanese equities and with the bearish dollar, we’re seeing the Nikkei come off,” said Patrick Bennett, Asia foreign exchange and rates strategist at Societe Generale in Hong...
...Sam’s Club, which targets both small businesses and families, has expanded its offering of non-perishable items, which now includes Campbell’s V-8 juice, Kellogg’s snack bars, dried fruit and popcorn, as...
...“The unwinding of the foreign exchange carry trade has been limited so far, but we are now looking for some catch up,” said Patrick Bennett, Asia FX and rates strategist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong...
...This is particularly true at a time of mounting chauvinistic pride in the achievements of India Inc. on the world stage, so evident in last week’s euphoria over Tata Steel’s successful bid for Corus....
...And no company has ever faced a class-action suit larger than Dukes v Wal-Mart, which on Tuesday was given the go-ahead by a divided panel of three federal judges in California....
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