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...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...Mateu Trias has set up camp with his circus company Baro d’Evel in a picturesque Lyon forest park for the annual Les Nuits de Fourvière festival....
...number of Wal-Mart stores around the country....
...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...Many western brands, such as Nike, LVMH, Carrefour and Wal-Mart, have successfully localised in China and become hugely profitable there....
...Wal-Mart focuses its site-to-store service on merchandise that is only available online....
...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....
...the shelf for Wal-Mart....
...Wal-Mart Stores edged 0.3 per cent higher to $55.97 after JPMorgan upgraded its recommendation on the world’s largest retailer from “neutral” to “overweight”....
...Wal-Mart is slowing its expansion in the US and speeding up its growth overseas, opening its first wholesale stores in India this year....
...Sam’s Club, the US discount warehouse retailer owned by Wal-Mart, began restricting purchases of bulk bags of imported rice last month, amid growing anxieties among small restaurant owners and others over...
...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...
...Yet Port St Lucie has remained true to its modest roots, more Wal-Mart than Valentino....
...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....
...Sales of consumer staples are holding up reasonably well at the likes of Costco, Wal-Mart and BJ’s Wholesale....
...fashion industry, was chosen after a search headed by Adrian Bellamy, chairman of The Body Shop, with Gap’s founder Don Fisher, Domenico De Sole, the former CEO of Gucci Group, and Bob Martin, a former Wal-Mart...
...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....
...The two questions for companies ranging from Wal-Mart to Apple, Procter & Gamble and Gap, as well as the advertising wizards on New York’s Madison Avenue, are why and how....
...After the suit was filed, Wal-Mart quietly embarked on a wide-ranging pay review on a store-by-store basis aimed at eliminating disparities that it said may have arisen owing to the decentralised authority...
...Wal-Mart looks set to pay $1bn for Trust-Mart, the second biggest hypermarket chain in China, after winning a bidding war with rival Carrefour (Citigroup said in a recent note that the price Wal-Mart could...
...On that landscape, Beliefnet has emerged as a sort of spiritual Wal-Mart, with everything under one roof, and easily accessible....
...“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....
...They’re our Tiger Mart....
...Ray Johnson, a lawyer who has in the past challenged developments by Wal-Mart, the US retailer, is calling on the planning authorities to subject both suppliers’ projects to a potentially time consuming...
...Mr Fung notes that they are pitted against large “big-box” chains, such as Wal-Mart, who often use toys as loss-leaders to draw in parents whom they hope will snap up their higher-margin goods....
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