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...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....
...— A look back at Smoot-Hawley (Sarah Gardner and Scott Tong): As the legislation progressed, newspaper columnists and the nation’s economists became increasingly alarmed....
...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....
...But investors should be cautious in their views regarding a fiscal cliff deal, said Brian Gardner, senior vice-president at Washington Research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
...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....
...Walmart retreated 2.5 per cent to $58.60, as investors continued to react to a decline in fourth-quarter profit for the retailer, which had seen shares fall 4 per cent on Tuesday....
...Walmart fell 5.9 per cent to $58.79 as a second consecutive quarter of US sales growth was not enough to drive profit growth....
...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....
...“We still believe the Russia market has promise, and we’ll continue, as we do in markets all over the world, to watch for the right market-entry opportunity,” spokesman Kevin Gardner told the Wall Street...
...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...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...“This is a wake up call for the equity bulls and the V shaped recovery bulls.”...
...Kevin Gardner, a Wal-Mart spokesman, described the initiative as “an important effort for the company”, but declined to give details. “The opportunity in this area is tremendous,” he said....
...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...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...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....
...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....
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