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...“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, the US retailer, has opened an office in Moscow, but unlike Carrefour is seeking to enter the market by acquiring a stake in an established local retailer....
...Halfords poached David Wild from Wal-Mart to become its chief executive in August. Mr Wild has experience of running Tesco’s central European operations....
...The alliance was formed following a long strike by California grocery workers in 2003 and has since succeeded in blocking a proposed Wal-Mart “super-centre” in Inglewood, a city in Los Angles county....
...In mid-November, Gregg Steinhaffel, president of Target, Wal-Mart’s discount rival, gave some indications that concerns were changing buying patterns....
...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...
...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....
...As further evidence, he cites strong same-store sales figures at Wal-Mart and Target, the low-cost retail chains....
...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....
...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)....
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