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Walmart's current and past successes rely on its ever-present expansion efforts and focus on delivering low prices, such as its 'Everyday Low Price' promotion. However, the company's success stems from [...]

Supermarkets remained successful in the second half of 2007 despite a lagging economy and rising food prices, reported Supermarket News (Apr. 21). In fact, 'the last two years have been [...]

WAL MART has a negligible economic influence on the small counties where it is located and does not destroy local businesses, according to research by the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, Minneapolis. [...]

On the heels of WAL-MART announcing it will begin asking its suppliers about the energy efficiency last month, a group of at least six multinational companies are pressing suppliers for [...]

WAL-MART has apparently matured to the point where it has now become the classic totally dominant market leader that only has ground to lose, but it's up for grabs whether [...]

Meanwhile, China is increasingly inspecting foods imported into the country from the U.S. Authorities who used to inspect as little as 5% of imported goods now check every shipment of [...]

WAL-MART'S growth rate declined in each of the last four years, from 12.9% in fiscal 2003 to 7.8% in fiscal 2007 and in the first quarter of the current fiscal [...]

WAL-MART estimates capital expenditures for its next fiscal year will grow at a significantly lower rate than spending for the current fiscal year. The Arkansas-based company projects capital spending in [...]

WAL-MART, SIMILAC and HAIN CELESTIAL are among the marketers vying for their share of the burgeoning organic baby formula segment. Though just a fraction of the $3.1 billion baby food [...]

* WAL-MART will become increasingly aggressive in merchandising, procurement and inventory management, according to commentary from a recent shareholder meeting. '[Wal-Mart] reiterated its commitment to national brands within the organic [...]

The Neighborhood Market is carving a new niche and gaining ground as an alternate vehicle for growth for the giant retailer. This format's scaled-down size enables it to gain access [...]

At the request of WAL-MART, COCA-COLA'S two biggest bottlers in North America are testing a new system that will allow Wal-Mart to distribute PowerAde directly to its stores. Wal-Mart also [...]

While supermarket retailers have collected a stockpile of data from the customers who use loyalty cards, that information is being underutilized, pointed out CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY researcher Vishal Singh. 'They're [...]

WAL-MART STORES INC. plans to open another 42 stores in China by the end of next year, nearly doubling its presence in the country, a senior company official said. The [...]

WAL-MART STORES INC. is seeking to appeal to a broader audience. While the discount retailer emphasizes that it will 'never turn its back on its obligation' to low-income customers who [...]

Bentonville, AR-based Wal-Mart is building its first Wal-Mart inside Chicago city limits ... Chicago Sun-Times (May [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. withdrew plans to build its first store in Washington, DC, after senior executives at the company visited the proposed site, saying it did not meet their [...]

* Wal-Mart dropped plans for a store on Chicago's South Side amid concerns about minimum wage and benefit standards that may be imposed on 'big-box' stores ... Chicago Sun-Times (Aug. [...]

In the next decade, Wal-Mart will command one-fifth of all grocery store sales, as the retailer moves ahead with a scaled-down version of its supercenters called Urban 99, according to [...]

* Wal-Mart wants stores in every country in Europe and will consider opening its own outlets as well as making large acquisitions ... Financial [...]

The first Dunkin' Donuts shop within a Wal-Mart store opened in North Wyndham, CT and the two companies plan to open ten in-store shops in the next three months in [...]

* Although Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has mandated its top 100 suppliers be set up for RFID by next January, 128 suppliers are already moving ahead with RFID projects, Simon Langford, [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has become the No. 1 seller of groceries in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-area, taking the lead in a top 10 U.S. market for the first time, according [...]

Trying to find a way to offer the same selection of groceries and general merchandise available at a typical supercenter in a much smaller space, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc. chief executive Lee Scott said that India and Russia were ripe for retail expansion, but China had the potential to rival the U.S. in growth opportunities. [...]

Although Wal-Mart will dominate mainstream retailing for some time, new and emerging retail formats and operators will inevitably find 'white space' opportunities, defined in most cases by 'what Wal-Mart isn't': [...]

* Five Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets are rumored to be in the planning for Nashville, Tennessee's grocery market. With five Nashville, TN-area supercenters, Wal-Mart claims 22.1% of the local market ... [...]

Wal-Mart Stores, which already owns No. 2 warehouse retailer Sam's Club, is considering buying the No. 3, BJ's Wholesale Club, for $1.4 billion, reported TheDeal.com, which says Wal-Mart wants BJ's [...]

When a single retailer accounts for an estimated 5.7% of all U.S. retail trade, estimated at $3.6 trillion last year, and notes that food sales at its 1,258 supercenters increased [...]

Sam's Club, a unit of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., has upgraded its latest store prototype at a unit under five miles from downtown Houston, TX about a year after launching the [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR, has relocated its global purchasing center from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, a city in South China's Guanghong Province. The world's largest retailer is planning [...]

Kmart plans to close 291 U.S. stores, including 14 Big K locations in Georgia, as part of the retailer's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, reported The Atlanta Journal Constitution (Feb. 6). [...]

A breakthrough has been reported in negotiations over a House bill that would change the way importers pay duties. Rep. Bill Thomas, (R-CA), introduced H.R. 4337 in April, a bill [...]

Scan-based trading (SBT), while posing great challenges during its implementation, seems to be worth the effort, as St. Louis-based Schnucks Markets and Bentonville, AR-based Wal-Mart Stores are planning to expand [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is combining some of its international and domestic operations including merchandise buying, new store planning and marketing. The move could greatly strengthen the retailer's buying clout, reported [...]

Through Aug. 1, shoppers checked out some $264.6 billion of food (and non-food) products through the nation's food stores - some 5.7% more than the first seven months of 1998. [...]

In an effort to improve its transportation-tracking abilities, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR, is considering a plan to use the Internet to monitor deliveries from a third-party logistics provider, reports [...]

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR, plans to open outlets of its Mexican subsidiary, retail chain Cifra, in the United [...]