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Wal-Mart Supercenter opened its first Blowout Video shop in its new unit in Moore, OK, on Oct 25, 1995. The prototype video rental department is double the size of those in its other supercenters and is operated by Rentrak subsidiary Blowout Entertainment on leased space. The department features livelier displays than any other department and is devoting 40% of its rental merchandise to new releases., BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores opened a new prototype for its supercenter video rental departments this month. Establishing a small bit of Hollywood in Moore, Okla., a stylishly decorated 2,200-square-foot [...]

Wal-Mart Stores: Maybe you ain't seen nothing yet. Wal-Mart is moving into food retailing big time, writing its own rules of the road as it goes along -- and why [...]

Byline: DAVID ORGEL Editor-in-Chief david.orgel@penton.com There are countless textbooks on business management dedicated to a simple question: What makes for leadership success? That's a timely topic as SN unveils its [...]

Byline: JULIE GALLAGHER SAN ANTONIO - SymphonyIRI released its annual list of New Product Pacesetters here at its CPG & Retail Summit last month. Rankings are based on year-one sales [...]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores' new combination food and discount-store units - the Supercenters -- are each generating sales of $1-1.5 million weekly, of which $400,000-600,000 comes from the food [...]

NEW YORK - Mike Duke, who took over as president and chief executive officer at Wal-Mart Stores earlier this year, said he would step up the retailer's focus on consumer [...]

The endcap is back. And it's back big. The redesign of Wal-Mart's Supercenters include an effort to clean up mid-aisle displays, but at the same time emphasize massive creations at [...]

KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Project Impact stresses value more than price in an effort to appeal to a broader demographic. WHAT'S NEXT: Renovating supercenters to meet merchandising and marketing goals. Mike Duke, [...]

KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Joined the company as CEO in May, added president title in July. WHAT'S NEXT: Unveiling plans to turn around the sluggish performance at one of the industry's most [...]

Wal-Mart is reengineering its merchandising functions by arranging product categories into Win, Play or Show designations. Although the company has not disclosed all of its specific category designations, SN has [...]

When my tenure at Supermarket News began in the early-to-mid-1990s, retailers were anxiously devising plans to compete with the growing threat from Wal-Mart Supercenters. Strategies under development ranged from staying [...]

From SKU rationalization to pay-for-growth programs, and from fewer display opportunities to more competition from private labels, the 'impact' of Wal-Mart's Project Impact may be hardest on its product suppliers. [...]

Wal-Mart's Project Impact intends to change the way the world's largest retailer approaches nearly all aspects of its business, but officials have boiled its main goals down to 10 words. [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. - The ongoing recession is not only affecting Wal-Mart's bottom line, but also its supply chain practices, observed Gary Maxwell, Wal-Mart Stores' senior vice president, international supply chain, [...]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Efforts by Wal-Mart Stores to relaunch its Great Value corporate line do not mean national brands will get less shelf space, William S. Simon, executive vice president [...]

URBANA, Ill. - Wal-Mart Stores has been making efforts to sell more local produce in its Illinois locations and is reaching out to Illinois farmers with the help of the [...]

With the entire country as its laboratory, Wal-Mart Stores has been conducting step-by-step experiments to create the ultimate 'green store.' The world's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., began its [...]

BEIJING - Wal-Mart Stores disclosed a new series of environmental and social responsibility standards here last week that it will impose on all of its suppliers around the world over [...]

LOS ANGELES - The financial crisis on Wall Street is creating major behavioral changes on Main Street that are evident in the way consumers are shopping at Wal-Mart, Eduardo Castro-Wright, [...]

It proved to be the best of both worlds for Wal-Mart Stores when the retailer partnered with Disney Consumer Products to open 750 Hannah Montana Shops in Wal-Mart stores earlier [...]

In November 2007, Wal-Mart Stores released a top-to-bottom update of its sustainability efforts. The overview looked at company initiatives ranging from improving operational efficiencies through packaging and waste reduction, to [...]

PHOENIX - Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., launched a website for its Marketside concept last week that gives some insights into how the format might be operated when it opens the [...]

Store formats, like new products, can suddenly become hot. That's exactly what's happened with small-store concepts, which were all but ignored by supermarkets until recently. You might like them, or [...]

BARCELONA, Spain - Partly as a result of the impact of a growing global population on the retail sector, a longtime director of Wal-Mart Stores questions whether the world's largest [...]

TAMPA, Fla. - The decision by Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., to slash 1,000 titles earlier this year was a concerted effort by magazine wholesalers, distributors and the retailer to improve [...]

When Wal-Mart Stores opened the first Sam's Wholesale Club in Midwest City, Okla., in 1983 it was intended as a vehicle for parent Wal-Mart Stores to enter urban markets. Within [...]

Sam's Club is celebrating 25 years of operation, but its greatest feat hasn't been its longevity. The biggest success was finding its own path in a world of two giants: [...]

Keeping an eye on profits and sustainability, retailers are taking a closer look at efficiency in the magazine category. This became big news earlier this year when Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, [...]

Some retail formats are becoming the Hillary Clintons of the food industry. They were counted out as major threats to supermarkets, but they are bouncing back as re-energized competitors. That's [...]

CINCINNATI - Expansion of generic prescription pricing programs is off to a fast start this year. Kroger Co. here this month added pharmacies in four states - Indiana, Tennessee, Michigan [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores has found a way to enter the pharmacy benefit management sector without officially becoming a pharmacy benefit manager. Its move sets the stage for supermarket [...]

AWG, DILLON TRADE ACQUISITIONS IN MIDWEST HUTCHINSON, Kan. - Dillon Stores here, a division of Kroger Co., Cincinnati, said it has reached an agreement to acquire three Homeland stores in [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Battle lines are being drawn for a clash between smaller-format food stores following reports last week that Wal-Mart Stores plans to test a new, 20,000-square-foot concept in [...]

What's selling, and how much, in six high-volume health and wellness categories Note: All sales figures are rounded up and are based on package claims, not ingredient lists. Includes UPC-coded [...]

Cincinnati - Less than a month after Wal-Mart expanded its $4 generic prescription drug program, Kroger Co. here launched one of its own in many divisions and banners. Kroger began [...]

BUSH SIGNS PRESCRIPTION PAD DEADLINE EXTENSION WASHINGTON - Late last month, President Bush signed into law a six-month delay of the Oct. 1 deadline requiring all Medicaid prescriptions to be [...]

Bentonville, Ark. - Retailers are voicing support for the Wal-Mart-led change in the laundry detergent category, but they say a major education campaign is needed to explain how to use [...]

When Wal-Mart Stores announced last September its plans to cut packaging by 5% over the next several years, retailers and environmental advocates were surprised. After all, this is the industry [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - In a shift away from its traditional EDLP model, Wal-Mart Stores here is implementing some aggressive promotional pricing on certain items in at least a handful of [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - In counterpoint to its recent overtures to a more upscale clientele, Wal-Mart Stores will aggressively roll out a financial services program aimed primarily at lower-income customers. The [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart here is going with the grain. The world's largest retailer is encouraging customers to shop the bread aisle by broadcasting public service announcements emphasizing that enriched [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here needs to revive its brand image by repositioning itself to highlight how smart its shoppers are and how they can use Wal-Mart as a [...]

HAS WAL-MART'S ENTRY INTO ORGANICS been as devastating as imagined? It was March 2006 when Wal-Mart announced it was doubling the number of organic food items in its stores to [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - What's next for Wal-Mart's banking efforts? Facing an avalanche of criticism and governmental resistance, Wal-Mart Stores here this month withdrew its application for an industrial loan company [...]

TORONTO - Could the seven Wal-Mart Supercenters in Canada serve as prototypes for a remodeling effort at the company's U.S. supercenters? Although Wal-Mart officials did not address that question during [...]

LOS ANGELES - Unified Western Grocers here said last week it sees the entry of Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets as a threat to its retail members comparable to [...]

BENTONVILLE Ark. - A prototype Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market that opened in Tulsa, Okla., this month gives health and beauty care more prominent placement with curved aisles and enhanced graphics, a [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - While Wal-Mart Stores' plan to sell 291 generic prescription drugs for $4 has not yet drawn supermarket pharmacies into a pricing war, it does have the industry [...]

Cost reduction + low prices + mainstream merchandise + small-town, cookie-cutter stores = unprecedented success That's the equation Sam Walton used to build the Wal-Mart empire. The formula was spectacular [...]

Meet 25 supermarket retailers, manufacturers and allied organizations who have transcended ordinary business practices and are leading consumers in their desire to shop better, eat smarter and live healthier. SUPERVALU [...]