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...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...It has also been used in sectors from cosmetics to fast food. Dunkin’ Donuts franchises out to Vietnam Food and Beverage Co....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 28 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Mexico, is beefing up its e-commerce business with a deal to buy Cornershop, a fast-growing online grocery app focused on Mexico and Chile, ramping up competition with Amazon which has recently launched a food...
...Whole Foods, the supermarket chain, opened a store in the area in 2015....
...Out in the outskirts of the city, E-Mart, South Korea’s top retailer, has packed three hectares with a vast selection of foods, clothing and household goods, enticing shoppers to pile their baskets high....
...They will get discounts on goods from Berkshire’s companies, from Nebraska Furniture Mart to Borsheims Fine Jewelry. They will see old friends....
...But the discounting strategies of retailing powers Amazon and Wal-Mart are making it difficult for goods makers to raise prices....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 5, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...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....
...Mr Buffett embodies his belief in food brands....
...ConAgra Foods recently merged its operations in Omaha with its suburban Illinois office to create a new head office in Chicago’s imposing Merchandise Mart building....
...But the S&P 500 consumer staples index fell 1.5 per cent following a sharp sell-off in shares of Hormel Foods and Wal-Mart....
...He adds: “It has the same active ingredient, so it should work the same, but if someone says ‘I want Cheerios, not Wal-Mart-Os’, then why should they not get what they’re paying for?”...
...Germany’s Metro also recently opened its first two My Mart convenience stores in the city. Domestic entrants are even more aggressive....
...Wal-Mart Stores (Retail) 48. Home Depot (Consumer Goods) 49. Yahoo! (Technology) 50. Morgan Stanley (Finance) 51. Discovery Communications (Media) 52. Colgate-Palmolive (Consumer Goods) 53....
...Charmless combinations of growth and earnings are found at food retailers across the globe. Mexico, it appears, is not an exception. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...With access to many products including Coke cut off, they made their own cola – called Kola Real in Peru – in their back yard and sold it in empty beer bottles....
...What we are actually referring to is this meaty mix-up, via Reuters: Wal-Mart will reimburse customers who bought the tainted “Five Spice” donkey meat and is helping local food and industry agencies in...
...Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex), Mexico’s biggest retailer, jumped nearly 5 per cent to 33.89 pesos....
...Nearly three months after putting its restaurant chain, Vips, up for sale, Wal-Mart de México y Centroamérica has finally found a taker: Alsea, Mexico’s largest fast and casual-restaurant operator, as well...
...Walmart has weathered one food quality scandal in China....
...For years, investors and analysts have asked what Wal-Mart de México y Centroamérica, Mexico’s largest retailer, was doing with a chain of budget restaurants....
...up another food company in the way that Inbev took over Anheuser-Busch, for instance....
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