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FOR YEARS, STEVE EDWARDS HAD been scared to open a grocery store in Little Rock. The market had been dominated by Kroger, Affiliated Food's Harvest Foods and the leader, Wal-Mart [...]

THIS IS 'THE STUFF OF LIFE.' That's Kmart's new slogan, and it couldn't be more appropriate. In the retailing jungle, life is dangerous. The slow and ponderous animals are devoured [...]

Washington, Benton Counties Escape Recent Hard Times RELYING ON THE SPIRIT of a contrarian, northwest Arkansas has reaped incredible prosperity since the 1980s. Consider the following: * With infrastructure problems [...]

Arkansas' two major retailers reporting diverging sales trends last week. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville said same-store sales increased 6.3 percent in September. Total company sales rose 14.8 percent to [...]

Not only has Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Markets division, opened in 1998, declared its first profits, there soon will be more of the traditional grocery stores popping up around the country. The [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says tax rebate dollars have not had an 'overly significant' impact on its sales. The retailer also said it. backed the Thomson Financial/First Call analyst consensus earnings [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported second-quarter net income of $1.62 billion, or 36 cents a diluted share, a 2 percent gain over the $1.6 billion of a year earlier. The [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said sales at its stores open at least a year rose a better-than-expected 6.9 percent in June, while Dillard's Inc.'s same-store sales fell 4 percent. Wal-Mart officials [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a 4 percent increase in fiscal first-quarter earnings, meeting analysts' lowered expectations, but the giant retailer remains cautious about consumer spending for the balance of the [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said first-quarter earnings would fall just short of the 32 cents per share the company had estimated, but would 'be up slightly' from the 30 cents a [...]

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS Appears to be more recession-proof than the rest of the country, largely because the two biggest companies in the area sell inexpensive consumables that might even sell better [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says February same-store sales -- units open at least one year -- rose 4.3 percent from a year ago. Total sales for the four-week period ended March [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a 4.5 percent increase in fourth-quarter profits, topping forecasts despite a lackluster holiday selling season that tempered earnings growth. Net income in the quarter, which ended [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net sales for the four-week period ending Nov. 24 of $16.4 billion, an increase of 9.4 percent over the $15.0 billion in the similar period last [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported single-day sales for Nov. 24 -- the day after Thanksgiving -- of more than $1.1 billion at the company's domestic Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters and Neighborhood [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. achieved solid sales and income increases in the third quarter, but looked positively sterling when compared to its retail competitors. The Bentonville chain, the world's largest retailer, [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is forecasting a slow-down in same-store sales growth for the rest of the year to 4 to 6 percent as high energy prices and a slowing U.S. [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported record net income for the quarter of $1.6 billion, compared with $1.25 billion for the quarter ended July 31, 1999. Earnings per share of 36 cents [...]

RIDING THE MOMENTUM of its 1999 purchase of British supermarket chain Asda Group Plc, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net earnings in excess of $1 billion for the eighth straight quarter. [...]

On Jan. 26, Robson Walton exercised $4.9 million worth of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stock options. The company chairman and eldest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton picked up 72,000 shares [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that same-store sales rose 6.1 percent for the four weeks ended Feb. 25. Total sales were $13.17 billion, up 23 percent from $10.7 [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a 23 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings that just beat Wall Street estimates. The company reported net income of $1.92 billion, or 43 cents per share, [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported net sales for the four-week period ending Jan. 28 of $11.6-billion, an increase of 22.8 percent from the $9.5 billion a year ago. Net sales for [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was seen as gaining ground in its push into Germany, but at a high cost. The world's largest retailer's 1999 losses in Europe's largest economy were estimated [...]

RETAIL IN ARKANSAS IS SYNonymous with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville and Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock. Both companies had vastly different years, but analysts have predictions of success for [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc., providing a snapshot of how holiday sales are shaping up, says sales during the first week of December were in line with its expectations, helped by [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says third-quarter net income rose 29 percent to $1.3 billion, or 29 cents a share, on sales of $40.4 billion. This compared to a net income of [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. squeezed a 14.1 percent increase in net income out of a 9.7 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter as it cut expenses. A weak dollar [...]

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas 'From day one I said, and probably everyday that I've been here, we're in this [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said second-quarter profits rose 26 percent as consumers continued to favor discount chains over higher-priced stores. Wal-Mart reported net income of $2.04 billion, or 46 dents a [...]

DURING A YEAR IN which almost all Arkansans' lives changed, whether profoundly or imperceptibly, one of the state's great mercantile clans soldiered on. The Stephens family, of Little Rock saw [...]

If you wanted to improve your stock portfolio, 1998 wasn't a very good year to be affiliated with trucking companies, banks or StaffMark Inc. It was a good year, however, [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. associates, customers and members raised $15 million to support the Children's Miracle Network hospitals between May 1 and June 14. Children's Miracle Network is an international nonprofit [...]

Development of retail space in Sherwood is in motion with a $4.5 million financial package. R&L Properties, led by Doyle Rogers and Tommy Lasiter, received the seven-year loan from Citizens [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said first-quarter earnings climbed 13.6 percent to $2.46 billion, or 55 cents a share after subtracting one-time items, missing analysts' estimates by a penny. 'We achieved record [...]

A 1.4-acre bah branch site in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $1.1 million (about $18 per SF). Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock purchased the location in front [...]

The board of directors for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced a $10 billion share buyback program last week, replacing a previously announced $7 billion plan, in anticipation of changes in the [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said August same-store sales for its U.S. stores rose 6.9 percent. Wal-Mart said it was the biggest gain in 14 months and ahead of its forecast. The [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said last week that second-quarter net income jumped 21 percent to $2.3 billion, or 52 cents a share, for continuing operations as revenue rose 11 percent to [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. same-store sales were up only 0.7 percent in March, while Dillard's Inc. said sales at stores open at least a year were down 12 percent in March. [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said total sales at stores open at least a year rose 2.6 percent in February, which met Wall Street expectations. But total same-store sales grew at a [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said total sales for its fourth quarter, which ended Jan. 31, were $71.1 billion, up 10.7 percent when compared with $64.2 billion in the quarter ended [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. expects to report a 3 percent increase in December sales at its namesake discount stores open at least a year. The company said it expected total [...]

Dillard's Inc. said sales were down 8 percent for November compared with the same period in 2001. The department store said its sales for the four weeks that ended Nov. [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported last week that sales for the quarter ended Oct. 31 jumped 11.5 percent to $58.8 billion and net income increased by 23 percent to $1.82 billion, [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s same-store sales were up a better-than-expected 3.7 percent in October. Total sales for the four weeks ended Nov. 1 rose 11.3 percent to $18.5 billion. Wal-Mart had [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reiterated its previous forecast that it will earn $1.76 to $1.78 a share for its fiscal year ending in January. Analysts surveyed by Thomson/First Call expect Wal-Mart [...]

Wal-Mart De Mexico SA, the Mexican division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, said same-store sales grew 5.3 percent in August, compared with the same month last year. Total sales [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has received a $125 million bank loan from Berkshire Hathaway Inc., part of a $2.85 billion, 364-day revolving line of credit arranged for Wal-Mart in late July [...]