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Wal-Mart is being viewed as an entrepreneurial success story on one end and as a greedy multinational corporation on the other. The retail company is praised for its aggressive pricing policy but is heavily criticized for its anti-labor practices and exploiting sweatshop workers across Asia.

While many diamond jewelry consumers continue to do their shopping at their friendly neighborhood store, it is the big jewelry chains, department stores, discounters, TV shopping channels and other volume [...]

Fly the Smiley Skies? It could happen. The reality of Wal-Mart's vast power is starting to sink in among world business leaders. If it were a country, Wal-Mart would be [...]

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 [...]

The budget for the year 2014-15, presented by the new Government, ushered in good news for the textile sector. Expanding horizons and capacities, the budget declared duty-free entitlement for import [...]

The Walmart Foundation announced a $2.5 million grant to Share Our Strength to help families nationwide gain valuable hands-on shopping, cooking and nutrition education so they can eat healthy on [...]

Tiger Group announced that dramatic shifts in the retail grocery business continue to create opportunities for asset-based lenders and private-equity investors alike. But as a Tiger Group expert noted in [...]

Tiger Group announced that dramatic shifts in the retail grocery business continue to create opportunities for asset-based lenders and private-equity investors alike. But as a Tiger Group expert noted in [...]

Food For Thought Denver has been selected as one of 60 winning hunger relief agencies to receive a $20,000 grant from Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together initiative. According to a release, [...]

Shoppers at Baltimore's Walmart learned new skills for buying healthy food on a limited budget on June 26, after a series of educational grocery shopping events in the store. According [...]

Shoppers at Baltimore's Walmart learned new skills for buying healthy food on a limited budget on June 26, after a series of educational grocery shopping events in the store. According [...]

Bharti Walmart is planning to raise Rs500 crore for expanding its operations in India. The company is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart of the US. Bharti Walmart [...]

360buy.com, China's biggest business-to-customer (B2C) website, says it has received more than $500 million in a new round of funding and it expects up to 26 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) [...]

Wal-Mart Puts Money Where Issues Are WASHINGTON Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is flexing its muscles in the early days of the Obama administration, spending $4.1 million on lobbying in the first [...]

Counting Every Penny: Stores' Cost-Cutting May Transform Retail Consumers aren't the only ones cutting back. Retailers are reining in their spending with most broadline players slashing millions from their budgets [...]

Wal-Mart Cheers Itself on at Annual Meeting FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Few, if any companies, could put on such a big and bold extravaganza, especially in these times. The Wal-Mart annual shareholders' [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Circuit City Stores Inc, the No. 2 U.S. consumer electronics retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday just a few weeks before the start of the […]

LAS VEGAS -- Jane Thompson offered an hourlong defense of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s financial plans here and urged bankers to look at the retailing giant and would-be bank as posing [...]

WASHINGTON -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s financial services strategy took a new direction when the retailer announced late Wednesday that its Mexican unit planned to start a bank and use it [...]

WASHINGTON -- According to the business plan Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has filed with federal regulators, it would not leverage its proposed Utah industrial loan company's capital. At the end of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The nation's community bankers have turned their ire from credit unions to Wal-Mart stores of late, in fears that the retail giant is getting a foothold into the [...]

Yes and no. The world's largest retailer isn't about to be overtaken. But it will feel more heat this year from Target. The smaller, fast-growing competitor is chipping away at [...]

DALLAS -- With Hurricane Rita churning across the Gulf of Mexico, retailers along the Texas coast and southwestern Louisiana braced for short- and long-term sales losses and damage from punishing [...]

The Independent Community Bankers of America and a coalition of other financial, retail, and labor groups said Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s application to charter an industrial loan company in Utah failed [...]

A small-business coalition that is urging Congress to prohibit commercial businesses from entering banking cited a recent application by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for a Utah industrial loan company charter as [...]

Inner City Press/Fair Finance Watch urged the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday to deny an application by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to charter an industrial loan company in Utah. The [...]

When Alfred Meyers said, 'Wal-Mart is an innovator that disrupts business,' he wasn't kidding. The vice president of business development for Retail Forward made the comment at a Strategic Outlook [...]

Wal-Mart Stores is sponsoring ABC's summer reality show The Scholar and has earmarked nearly $7 million for local scholarships nationally. The Scholar follows 10 high school seniors as they compete [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Despite reducing floor space for men's wear in some of its stores last year, Target Stores president Gregg Steinhafel said he is 'very pleased with the business,' even [...]

Wal-Mart Stores will spend $35 million over 10 years to conserve one acre of wildlife habitat for every acre it develops for stores. That pledge is the cornerstone to Wal-Mart's [...]

THE FEDERAL OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE on March 22 raised the federal funds interest rate by 25 basis points to 2 3/4 percent -- the seventh-straight rate rise since last June. [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Supermarket operators in California are divided on a ballot initiative calling for large employers to provide health insurance for workers. Last week, Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark., said [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may be the retailer that the financial services industry is most focused on right now, but it is far from alone in capitalizing on its market heft [...]

Byline: Douglas P. Shuit Taking lessons from Wal-Mart Stores on innovative approaches to products and pricing may be a smart move for a competitor. But emulating its workforce-management practices may […]

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart may not have designs on world domination, but it is pressing the accelerator for global growth and experimentation this year. It's happening even after a challenging [...]

The year marked more of the same challenges experienced in prior years, but this time the pressure got ramped up a notch. Wal-Mart continued to get bigger and more aggressive. [...]

It's such a joyous time of the year. Oh, I'm sorry, did you think I was talking about the holidays? No, no, I meant for all of the market research [...]

Active sportswear prices are dropping, and given the strength of mass merchants in this field, it's easy to understand why. Here are the leading retailers of sporting goods (including men's [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here last week said its margins were squeezed in the third quarter ended Oct. 31, primarily because of higher apparel inventories and resulting markdowns, but [...]

Socks are gaining sales legs in supermarkets, at the expense of the declining pantyhose and nylons category. The shift to a more relaxed workplace environment, coupled with today's casual fashion [...]

NEW YORK-Buoyed by improved weather conditions and continued momentum with back-to-school-driven sales, retailers experienced robust sales for September. In turn, the HFN Comp Sales Average soared 5.3 percent for the [...]

* Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s expansion plans include between 50 and 55 new discount stores and 220 to 230 Supercenters-CNNmoney (Sept. [...]