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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...
...Asda, the Wal-Mart owned supermarket chain, also uses staff, and Shell has done so too. Warren Scarr, B&Q’s marketing director, says the company has been using its staff in ads since 1996....
...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....
...annually of Wal-Mart’s estimated $200m business....
...Wal-Mart has been given fair warning of what lies ahead....
...But Petsmart and Petco have taken a markedly more aggressive approach than retail competitors such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway....
...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....
...Indiana and Joseph Biden of Delaware and New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson....
...“Right now, Hispanics have a greater affinity for Wal-Mart than any identifiable segment of the US population.”...
...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.”...
...They suggest that the packaging of many consumer electronics products lacks sophistication and is “unlikely to be acceptable to Wal-Mart”....
...’s Richardson....
...By 2007 all of Wal-Mart’s US suppliers are scheduled to be tagging cases. Smucker’s Foods has now been tagging its supplies to Wal-Mart - as well as Target and Albertsons - for more than a year....
...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)....
...They make it by being Wal-Mart....
...I admire Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, for creating the world’s largest company by turnover and for showing that most people prefer a low cost option most of the time....
...Political analysts have described it as a test of strength between wealthy “Country Club Republicans”, who support Mr Riley’s pro-business policies, and rank and file “Wal-mart Republicans” who favour Mr...
...It uses cheap fabric from China, India and Pakistan to produce jeans and gabardine trousers destined for Levi Strauss, Gap, Wal-Mart and other US chains....
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