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...The city ousted Bruges and came by the mid-14th century to serve as a “department store for the wool traders”....
...VinMart stores, for example, might make use of “smart cameras” to track how much time customers stay in a given section of the store....
...Adding to pricing pressure has been growing competition in the food-shopping sector, with big-box retailers like Wal-Mart — which has also recently pointed to pressures from food deflation — aiming to gobble...
...Among them, however, is the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, along with department stores like Macy’s, Kohl’s and TJX Cos....
...Wal-Mart’s annual meeting is at noon UK time....
...(Financial Times) Wal-Mart unlikely to bid (Bloomberg) Online ad company AppNexus became one of only a handful of NY start-ups to crack a valuation over $1bn after a new round of investment....
...The hub of Miyake’s empire is the Reality Lab department at the Miyake Design Studio....
...Two months into the third quarter and Wal-Mart de México, the US retailer’s Mexican arm, has very little to cheer about – at least in terms of luring more higher-spending customers to its massive retail...
...They have triggered investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US justice department as well as an internal Walmart inquiry....
...number of Wal-Mart stores around the country....
...Wal-Mart has struggled of late, but is up against soft comparatives from Q4 09....
...However, Wal-Mart, in a joint venture with Bharti, has started cash-and-carry stores – a business open to foreign investment – with other foreign players soon to follow....
...’s and Gottshalk’s, two California-based regional department stores....
...But Hyundai Department Store leapt 8 per cent to a five-month high of Won108,000 after government data showed strong sales growth in the country’s leading department store chains....
...Before joining Loblaw, he was chief executive of Irish department store Brown Thomas....
...The company has over 1,000 stores nationwide and a turnover of £18 billion. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Irish department store group, Brown Thomas....
...And according to Reuters, it’s not just devotees of Wal-Mart and Costco that have been cutting back (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): Bankruptcy professionals have a grim view on the U.S. corporate recovery,...
...Mr Duke said last week that Wal-Mart research showed concern over jobs was the top concern of the primarily lower-income shoppers at the company’s 4,000-plus US stores....
...Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, no longer reports same store sales on a monthly basis....
...The index excludes Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, which no longer reports monthly sales numbers....
...Retail Metrics, which tracks the monthly figures, says the consensus of analyst estimates points to a 6.6 per cent decline in its monthly index, excluding data from drug store chains and from Wal-Mart, which...
...The programme has partnered with retailers including Wal-Mart, Princeton Review, Target and Staples, to encourage parents to spend the funds on their children....
...In February last year, Macy’s, the largest US department store also stopped issuing monthly same store numbers, citing volatility concerns as it began an overhaul of its stores....
...Even in the recession, Target’s sales have also fared better than other rivals, including Sears Holdings, JC Penney and Kohl’s, the low price department stores....
...So one month’s worth of retail sales figures, particularly without the contribution of America’s largest retailer Wal-Mart, is of only limited use....
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