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...Wal-Mart says that the stores are part of a 10-store pilot, with another store in Phoenix being built....
...Wal-Mart Watch, the anti-Wal-Mart campaign funded by the SEIU service workers union, warned supporters this month to be on the lookout for what it called new “stealth” Wal-Mart stores....
...“The brand is designed to be as fresh as Whole Foods, with value like a Wal-Mart, the convenience of a Walgreens and product range of a Trader Joe’s,” said Mr Mason....
...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...
...retailers in the US such as Safeway, Wal-Mart, Costco and Target, which operate huge, largely out-of-town supermarkets, bankers said....
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...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....
...Wal-Mart, for example, recently turned to a marketing man – Carter Cast, the former head of its website – when it created the position of head of strategy for its US stores....
...Wal-Mart shed 1.8 per cent to $48.44, after it reported same-store sales rose1.8 per cent in September, an increase at the lower end of its forecast range....
...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....
...After selling Fed-Mart, he and his son Robert opened the first Price Club discount store in a converted aircraft hangar in San Diego in 1976....
...stores in Phoenix and San Diego in April....
...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)....
...As a result, although - like Wal-Mart - it is non-unionised it has a modest 20 per cent turnover of staff. • Think about the long-term....
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