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...Tariff man Driving from Little Rock towards north-west Arkansas, where Walmart and Tyson Foods have their headquarters, towns and small cities cluster by the roadside; art museums funded by Walmart's founding...
...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....
...Walmart, the mass market discounter, has a line from Miley Cyrus, a teenage celebrity....
...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...
...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...
...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...His attitudes were shaped by working in a Crawfords biscuit factory on Merseyside as a young man, where a mainly female day shift worked their socks off, but the male night shift “worked 30 minutes on and...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...“You’re going to see a lot more Lexuses and BMWs in Wal-Mart parking lots going forward,” Mr Crawford said....
...“This is a wake up call for the equity bulls and the V shaped recovery bulls.”...
...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...
...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....
...Mac Crawford, Caremark chief executive, will be chairman. CVS shareholders will own 54.5 per cent of the combined company if the deal goes through, and Caremark shareholders will own 45.5 per cent....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...Fred Crawford, a retail analyst at AlixPartners, notes that even Wal-Mart’s most succesful international efforts have not always been marked by immediate success....
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