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...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...The group is a community for employees of banks and other financial institutions who have left or are planning to quit their jobs due to Islam's prohibition on usury....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...Related reading: Russian retail: not recommended for foreigners, Vedomosti (Russian) Emerging markets: lessons from Wal-Mart, FT Walmart plans its Russia return, FT...
...Sony would take over the library and sell MGM’s films to retailers such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy and broadcasters around the world, saving millions of dollars in staff costs and overheads....
...Some questioned the group’s commitment to expansion in countries with long-term potential but short-term difficulties....
...Mr Bond points out that all four of the big supermarket groups have ambitious growth plans....
...At Wal-Mart, for instance, more than 40 per cent of the online orders on the retailer’s website are sent for pick-up at a local store, as customers seek to avoid the costs and timing uncertainties of home...
...Bharti Del Monte’s long-term aim is to boost India’s mango exports, but for now the company is buying them for Easy Day, Bharti Enterprises’ wholly owned retail chain, which operates 27 stores in the northern...
...of Asda, the UK arm of Wal-Mart, the US retail giant....
...The bursting of the US property bubble has created a headache for Tesco’s US venture. But its expansion record remains more solid than Carrefour’s or Wal-Mart’s....
...So tough was the competition that Wal-Mart, the US retail group, three years ago gave up its plans to sell everything under one roof in Germany....
...As Mr Muller says: “When a big chain opens next door, we can help [convenience store owners] fight off the competition” – which will be bad news for Wal-Mart if he is proved right....
...Underlying sales are forecast to rise between 2 and 5 per cent this year, below Lindt’s long-term target for growth of between 6 and 8 per cent....
...Mr Scott also talked about further moves by Wal-Mart to “expand the fence” of its operations beyond pure retail operations, such as a long-term agreement with the largest US online contact lens provider,...
...Wal-Mart was one of two stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average to find positive territory, up 18 per cent at $56.06. The other, McDonald’s, rose 5.6 per cent over the year to $62.19....
...and announced plans for its own cash-and-carry stores....
...It has been two years since the first union was established at one of Wal-Mart’s 105 China stores – something the world’s largest retailer had long resisted....
...I think it has long-term ramifications for our global competitiveness. FT: Why has business not been more vocal?...
...Tesco, which plans to roll out hundreds of Fresh & Easy stores in California, Arizona and Nevada, has become a bugbear for the UFCW, which represents more than 1.3m employees at US supermarkets....
...Lee Scott, Wal-Mart’s chief executive, now sounds like the greens who for so long excoriated his company....
...Coles, the grocery chain that Wesfarmers acquired for $18.2bn last year, is to be run by Ian McLeod, chief executive of car parts chain Halfords in the UK and a former board member for Wal-Mart’s German...
...The number of Asda stores has risen by nearly 50 per cent to 352, and its workforce is up by more than a third, to 160,000, since Wal-Mart took charge....
...HSBC, which makes around one third of its profits in North America, rose 1.7 per cent to HK$116.50 while Li & Fung, a big supplier to Wal-Mart Stores, added 1.8 per cent to HK$27.60....
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