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...With streets empty, Amazon, Wal-Mart and local grocers sold out of key household items, networks jammed across the globe, SMB’s shuttered, and millions working from home, forced changes will have a lasting...
...In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers....
...Tequila in $5.1bn deal (WSJ) Loeb demands ‘more urgency’ for disposals at Nestlé (FT) Richemont bids to take full control of Yoox Net-a-Porter (FT) Carlyle loses control of bankrupt US oil refinery (FT) Wal-Mart...
...Now let’s suppose that in the US, the chairman of Wal-Mart could become the chairman of Procter & Gamble. That would be an obvious case of conflict of interest and there would be no denying it....
...idea is Handell’s impressive distribution network in Mexico, which reaches not only the more expensive retail outlets such as department stores and luxury goods’ stores, but also the growing number of Wal-Mart...
...“Go to Wal-Mart and look around,” Husing says. “Pretty much every consumer good imaginable – household items, electronics, virtually every shoe in the world – is made in China.”...
...“I was thinking of checking out Wal-Mart,” Ms Coffey says. “I’m sure there are so many people looking for work there’s probably not going to be much of anything out there . . ....
...Only a handful of US retailers reported year-on-year comparable sales gains in February, although Wal-Mart, the low-cost discounter, said sales at stores open at least a year rose by 5 per cent....
...Cost-cutting has been top of the agenda, and with plenty of experience from his time at Wal-Mart and Tesco, Mr Wild is pushing for more progress....
...Asda, part of Wal-Mart, has been one of the strongest beneficiaries of the trend for shoppers to seek the lowest prices along with Wm Morrison and the hard discounters such as Aldi and Lidl....
...The Wal-Mart-owned chain, the UK’s biggest grocer after Tesco, has used its reputation as the country’s cheapest large supermarket group to outperform many of its rivals as consumer spending shrinks....
...US retail Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, noted last week a recent shift in American shopping patterns, writes Jonathan Birchall....
...An overnight rally in US stock markets had helped credit markets tighten sharply, after Wal-Mart reported earnings that beat market expectations and Intel and Cisco increased their revenue estimates....
...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...
...The modernisation of India’s $330bn retail sector will be long and painful, the head of Wal-Mart’s Indian partner has warned....
...Wal-Mart has been given fair warning of what lies ahead....
...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....
...Turns out you should sell a carefully balanced portfolio of 26 other stocks and commodities that might include some shares in Wal-Mart. In Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J....
...“Right now, Hispanics have a greater affinity for Wal-Mart than any identifiable segment of the US population.”...
...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....
...“Wal-Mart’s an important customer,” he said, adding that retailers and suppliers need one another and should work together. “Our customers and their shoppers are the same people.”...
...They suggest that the packaging of many consumer electronics products lacks sophistication and is “unlikely to be acceptable to Wal-Mart”....
...Similarly, Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, does not provide any online numbers, on the basis that internet sales account for less than 1 per cent of its global business....
...The main tent they are sleeping in was donated by Wal-Mart, which employs one of the daughters, Samantha, and her boyfriend, Gordon....
...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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