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...That made it vulnerable to competition, particularly after Wal-Mart bought Asda in 1999, bringing with it heavy discounting to the general merchandise market....
...Solid results from Wal-Mart Stores and a number of retailers also cheered investors....
...At Christmas, Wal-Mart turned its attention to satellite navigation units, the latest hot category to move rapidly towards market saturation, adding to downward pressure on pricing for the units....
...Wal-Mart accounts for 18 per cent of North American sales of Pepsi’s parent PepsiCo, while about a third of PepsiCo’s North American sales come from just five retailers....
...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....
...But with Wal-Mart now offering product warranty schemes and in-store pick-up for online sales, US electronics retailers are facing pressures from the discounter that have in the past bankrupted the leading...
...Wal-Mart’s sales statement also drew attention to its planned expansion of a service that allows orders made online at Walmart.com to be picked up in its 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....
...Jeff Smith, head of Accenture’s global retail practice, noted that under Eduardo Castro-Wright, who heads Wal-Mart’s US store division, “there have been regular signals to Wall Street and the market that...
...It operates stores in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Malaysia. Tesco’s international rivals, including Wal-Mart and Carrefour, have also moved into China....
...Woolworths runs the Dick Smith Electronics chain of stores in Australia as well as supermarkets and other stores....
...Wal-Mart also declined to comment....
...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....
...On coming Friday nights, the retailer’s in-store Wal-Mart television screens will be running an exclusive recording of the band performing acoustic versions of its songs, with highlights also appearing on...
...At the time, Sainsbury said it took the strategic decision to sell the chain having decided that Wal-Mart would look for growth in New England and squeeze the business....
...Meanwhile, retailing giant Wal-Mart cited demand generated by the storm as it reported at the weekend that it would maintain its forecast for a 3-5 per cent increase in July sales at stores open at least...
...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)....
...A deal would mark the end of the company's unsuccessful attempt to turn around its toy operations, which has struggled to compete with Wal-Mart and Target, discounters that have aggressively cut prices on...
...sales to both deep discounters such as Wal-Mart and to speciality apparel retail stores such as Gap....
...s exit from the south eastern region of the US where profitability has suffered due to fierce competition from discount retailers including Wal-Mart....
...He has told his creative directors that they will be judged in part by their in-store ideas. "Tomorrow's heroes will be those who reconfigured a Wal-Mart [store]," he says....
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