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NEW YORK -- Mass market general merchandise retailing is overwhelmingly a story of the dominance of national chains, and of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. above all. The regional discount store operators [...]

NEW YORK -- The grocery business may be big enough for the leading supermarket giants and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. too. Of course, many analysts worry that Wal-Mart's aggressive rollout of [...]

LONDON -- Walmart's Asda Group Ltd. plans to invest [pounds sterling]100 million ($155 million) to relaunch its core food range. The move is the latest effort by Britain's second-largest supermarket [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart's acquisition of Asda PLC in 1999 gave it entry into the United Kingdom, one of the most mature, highly developed and competitive food retailing markets in [...]

LONDON -- Tesco LLC continues to increase its share of the United Kingdom market, according to research firm TNS. The U.K.'s largest food retailer owned 31.5% of the market for [...]

TOP GLOBAL RETAILERS SALES AND STORE BASE BY REGION * North America % of No. of Retailer Sales Total Sales Stores Wal-Mart (1) $200,231 91% 4,008 Carrefour (2) 633 1% [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif.--Retailing in Orange County is perhaps most often associated with its glitzy malls, but the area has also been hospitable to discount retailers, including all of the major chains. [...]