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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 . . ....
...Some of the money has gone towards 212 Mart stores, 212-branded mineral water and several fried chicken kiosks....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...Japan’s Seven & i Holdings plans to have 1,000 7-Eleven stores in Vietnam by 2027, and Thailand’s B’s Mart chain is aiming for 3,000 locations....
...Walmart de Mexico’s parent company is itself growing sales only a little faster than inflation; for this you pay 16 times earnings, several notches above the company’s long-term average....
...Two months into the third quarter and Wal-Mart de México, the US retailer’s Mexican arm, has very little to cheer about – at least in terms of luring more higher-spending customers to its massive retail...
...Wal-Mart‘s ‘fleet improvements’ as of its 2012 Global Responsibility Report were focused very much on efficiency (“a 69 per cent improvement in fleet efficiency over our 2005 baseline”) and its alternative...
...With Wal-Mart and Starbucks both announcing plans in the past week to make it easier for customers to pay using smartphones, the mobile payments market is finally moving into the mainstream....
...Related reading: Russian retail: not recommended for foreigners, Vedomosti (Russian) Emerging markets: lessons from Wal-Mart, FT Walmart plans its Russia return, FT...
...Walmex fourth-quarter profit jumps 26% Wal-Mart de Mexico, Mexico’s largest retailer, reported a 26 per cent leap in fourth-quarter profits as improving consumer confidence and aggressive store expansion...
...Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer by sales, takes less than 5 per cent of sales online. But two-fifths of its online orders are now collected in-store....
...“Flogging DVDs in Bentonville [where Wal-Mart is headquartered] is not particularly sexy, but it’s what MGM was good at,” says one person who was close to the situation at the time....
...Some questioned the group’s commitment to expansion in countries with long-term potential but short-term difficulties....
...Despite the power of Wal-Mart, Asda remains a long way behind Tesco. According to the latest figures from TNS Worldpanel, Adsa has a 17 per cent market share, while Tesco has 30.8 per cent....
...Brian Sozzi, retail analyst at Wall Street Strategies, said he believed Wal-Mart’s move reflected its management’s desire to get investors to focus on its long term outlook, reflecting its shift from being...
...Collective and Alshaya have a long-term objective of more than 300 Payless stores....
...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...
...Coinstar’s Redbox already has plans for more than 20,000 kiosks to be deployed by the end of this year at locations including Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer by sales, and leading drug stores and supermarkets...
...The company, which also operates Ralphs and Food 4 Less stores, has come under pressure to slash its prices in the recession to compete with low-price competitors such as Wal-Mart....
...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...
...Universal signed an agreement with Asda, the UK supermarket chain owned by Wal-Mart, in June to put lyrics such as ‘Born to be Wild’ and ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’ on T-shirts in the group’s George clothing...
...In corporate news, Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said it would create more than 22,000 jobs this year in new or expanded US stores. Wal-Mart shares were flat at $50.87....
...Tom Schoewe (left), chief financial officer at Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, says US food prices are either not rising as fast as before or are indeed falling....
...True, same-store sales are growing faster at UK counterparts J Sainsbury, Wm Morrison and Wal-Mart’s Asda. Tesco’s annual earnings growth was the slowest since 1994....
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