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...The second thing is that Wal-Mart is by far one of America's largest employers, and it's decided in the past couple of years that it needs to spend more and put more effort into making Wal-Mart a good place...
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...Over the last two years Whole Foods’ sales figures have been languishing due to increasing competition in specialty foods from the likes of Kroger, Wal-Mart and Costco....
...Wal-Mart’s annual meeting is at noon UK time....
...number of Wal-Mart stores around the country....
...“Flogging DVDs in Bentonville [where Wal-Mart is headquartered] is not particularly sexy, but it’s what MGM was good at,” says one person who was close to the situation at the time....
...Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club warehouse store also plans to open a 143,000 sq ft Hispanic-focused store called Más Club in Houston this year....
...Bazaarvoice now works with more than 500 brands belonging to companies including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Boots, Argos, Lego and Procter & Gamble....
...The Target stock has outperformed Wal-Mart over a 10 year period, a 5 year period, and in 2009 to date(1)....
...The UFCW also points to its effort to represent a group of 10 Wal-Mart meat workers in Texas who voted to unionise in 2000. Wal-Mart subsequently closed its store meat-cutting counters....
...Rather than building scale gradually, he pursued and eventually secured a deal to sell a pallet of the product to Home Depot’s online business, followed by a 100,000 bottle contract with Wal-Mart Canada....
...Comparable sales at Wal-Mart’s stores and supercenters rose 2 per cent during the month, while sales at its Sam’s Club warehouse stores rose 4.6 per cent....
...Wal-Mart says it is opening 15 “Solution Centers by Dell” at stores in the Dallas area, which it says will provide home set-up services for high-definition TVs and home theatre installations, as well as...
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, already operates more than 4,000 pharmacies at its superstores and warehouse clubs across the US....
...But it said: “If Wal-Mart continues to add stores at its current growth rate, its new stores alone will use significantly more energy than any of its energy-saving measures will save.”...
...Target focuses on a more up-market customer base than its larger rival Wal-Mart and has been harder hit by the pressures on US consumers....
...The subsidiary, Texas Retail Energy, provides more than 1.6m MW hours annually to Wal-Mart’s network of over 300 stores in the state, and is also operating in New York state....
...The number of Asda stores has risen by nearly 50 per cent to 352, and its workforce is up by more than a third, to 160,000, since Wal-Mart took charge....
...Yet to judge by much of blue-collar Sam’s Club America (named after Wal-Mart’s discount cards), there are other, more distracting, things to worry about....
...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...
...While the US chemical industry argues that there are no significant health risks from PVC, the three largest US general retailers, Wal-Mart, Target and Sears, have said they will work to eliminate the substance...
...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....
...Although grocery chains such as Wal-Mart, Sainsbury and Carrefour fared well, slowing sales growth at Marks and Spencer in the UK and Gap and Ann Taylor Stores in the US showed consumers were easing up on...
...Costco and Wal-Mart, the US retail giants, were forced last month to limit the amount of basmati rice any one customer could buy from their warehouse stores after rumours of a shortage triggered a stampede...
...But the case could have implications for much larger retailers, including big box stores such as Wal-Mart, Target and other prominent national discounters, lawyers for the Texas retailer told the court....
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