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...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 . . ....
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...Wal-Mart may open India retail stores Wal-Mart and Carrefour may gain access to the retail market of the world’s second most-populous country after an Indian government panel was said to have recommended...
...storage with a revolutionary new power station - Sir Richard Branson and the billionaire family behind Wal-Mart are among a group of investors who stand to lose up to $1.5bn (£930m) after the collapse...
...Leading US retailers including Target’s rival Wal-mart and Whole Foods, the natural and organic supermarket, have started paying more attention to sustainability of sea-food purchasing over the past few...
...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....
...And, as the recession hits home, Wal-Mart has only grown stronger, its ultra-low prices for food and other basics luring more shoppers to more than 4,200 US stores....
...The SEIU’s Wal-Mart Watch campaign argued in response that Wal-Mart’s health plan was still too expensive for many of its hourly workers....
...RFID, in particular, attracted a lot of attention at the beginning of the decade, with large retail groups such as Marks and Spencer and Wal-Mart using the technology to track goods in their warehouses and...
...Today, Wal-Mart is America’s largest employer, Toyota is the world’s largest carmaker and General Motors is expected to file for bankruptcy....
...Consumer staples – which had led the market lower in the previous session, when the latest batch of glum corporate earnings took in erstwhile defensive food companies – took comfort from Wal-Mart’s sales...
...The company’s cheeses, which will soon include English cheddar, are being sold in supermarkets along the country’s east coast, including branches of Tesco and Wal-Mart....
...Reports of widespread consumer bargain-hunting failed to lift Wal-Mart and Target, the discounters, which fell 5.1 per cent at $53.01 and 12.5 per cent at $29.54, respectively....
...Walgreens says it plans to operate more than 7,000 stores in 2010. The two drugstore chains have gained national scale as they face a growing competitive threat from Wal-Mart, the mass discounter....
...And I think that having Mike Duke come in to run Wal-Mart stores and bringing in Eduardo, and laying out a plan…I think you see the results of a management team that through experience and outside hires...
...Eduardo Castro-Wright, head of Wal-Mart’s US stores, said comparable sales in grocery, health and wellness and entertainment - Wal-Mart’s three biggest categories - again outperformed competitors during...
...farm workers’ welfare”....
...Wal-Mart, the largest private employer in the US, is encouraging its 1.3m store workers to set out health-related goals for themselves under “Personal Sustainability Plans”....
...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....
...Retail giant Wal-Mart’s plan to start managing drug benefits should only intensify their interest. In CVS’s case, a drugstore chain bought a pharmacy benefits manager....
...Wal-Mart’s top executives are expected to lay out their store development plans for 2008 at a two-day analysts meeting that begins on Tuesday, following a decision earilier this year to moderate the pace...
...Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a $4 plan for 30 days’ supply of commonly used generic drugs....
...Tesco has opened 15 stores in the US and plans to bring the total to 50 by the end of the year and 200 by the end of next year. Its first 10,000 sq ft US Fresh & Easy store was opened this month....
...Costco and Wal-Mart, the US retail giants, were forced last month to limit the amount of basmati rice any one customer could buy from their warehouse stores after rumours of a shortage triggered a stampede...
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