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...Entire small cities and towns became significantly poorer when major manufacturing plants closed, union jobs were lost forever and cheaper prices at Walmart did not compensate for the loss....
...Former boss Kerry Killinger had gone big on subprime to build what he called “the Wal-Mart of banking”, and was pushed out by investors who didn’t like a rescue refinancing led by TPG Capital....
...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 . . ....
...“Both Lotte and E-Mart were eager to take over eBay’s operations but E-Mart offered about Won500bn more,” added the industry official....
...“So they are buying heavily from China, I mean, millions of toasters via Wal-Mart, via Amazon, via Costco, via whomever....
...It was preceded by retailer Merry Mart Consumer, which raised 1.59bn pesos, and AREIT, the real estate investment trust of Ayala Land, part of the nation’s oldest conglomerate Ayala Corp....
...Art of the deal When a typical middle-class Indian kid shops online, he thinks of Amazon, not local billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail or Jio Mart....
...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...
...US labour costs and the challenge of selling US-made shoes through chains such as Wal-Mart or Target made it simply too difficult, Mr Priest added....
...The personal profiles created and sold by retailers such as Wal-Mart include information that company algorithms can quickly link to medical conditions such as depression or obesity....
...It launched the cheaper Levi’s Signature brand in 2003 to sell through retailers such as Wal-Mart but it constantly has to face upward and downward....
...In Finance v Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?, Mr Philippon crunches the numbers on costs for consumers....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...The limit for WAL generally declines over time. Apparently it is WAL that is tripping up the 2014-era CLOs....
...Other retailers are following in the footsteps of Amazon Prime Video, with Wal-Mart and Costco reported to be trying to beef up their online channels....
...By that point Wal-Mart had taken over as by far the most important retailer in the country, with a revolutionary business model....
...Among the companies excluded are groups such as Airbus, Boeing, Japan Tobacco, Rio Tinto and Wal Mart....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average, however, was largely flat at 23,387, held back by early losses for Nike and Wal-Mart....
...This week, Italian group Enel snapped up Brazilian power company Eletropaulo for R$5.52bn ($1.48bn) while US-based private equity firm Advent International bought a majority stake in Wal-Mart’s business...
...But the discounting strategies of retailing powers Amazon and Wal-Mart are making it difficult for goods makers to raise prices....
...The S&P 500 gained 0.82 per cent to 2,585, led in part by a 10 per cent rise for Wal-Mart and a 5.8 per cent advance for technology giant Cisco on the back of their latest earnings report....
...Ahold’s various fascias up and down the eastern US are being squeezed on all sides: by Wal-Mart in the south, by upmarket rivals such as Sprouts and Whole Foods in urban areas, and by the increasingly active...
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