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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...
...“Stimulus – that’s a quaint term for sending money to China via Wal-Mart,” said Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker. “You do not want the political class trying to run the economy.”...
...Treasury insiders say the strain was apparent when first Amex, then GM and Ford applied for banking licences, but the final straw came when Bloomingdales and Wal-Mart followed suit....
...the shelf for Wal-Mart....
...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....
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...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....
...Wal-Mart has said it will continue to pursue its legal challenge to the discrimination lawsuit....
...“There are 65,000 DVD titles available, but if you go to Wal-Mart you’ll see maybe 1,400,” said Anthony Bay, MOD Systems chairman....
...There’s a thought in the market that while the Wal-Mart consumer has been hit by the weaker housing market, the economy will be bailed out by rich people spending the proceeds of leveraged buy-outs....
...They’re our Tiger Mart....
...“Right now, Hispanics have a greater affinity for Wal-Mart than any identifiable segment of the US population.”...
...“The first place to look will be for stocks of companies serving the Wal-Mart customers,” she says. “More of the bad news is already incorporated in the stock prices....
...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.”...
...The Starter Pro line, made by Nike and sold at Wal-Mart for around $40, is backed by Brett Favre, quarterback of the Green Bay Packers....
...They suggest that the packaging of many consumer electronics products lacks sophistication and is “unlikely to be acceptable to Wal-Mart”....
...Interest is strong in shopping malls, linked to the expansion of western retail groups such as Wal-Mart, and in office buildings in primary cities, often supported by foreign tenants....
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