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The shelves in a Wal-Mart store are filled with products from thousands of suppliers, many of whom have been immensely successful over the years in working with the company to [...]

The evolution of dollar stores from regional chains and independents with limited customer appeal and unsophisticated merchandising into a hot growth channel that even the affluent are now drawn to [...]

SCRANTON, PA. -- Right on schedule, Ames completed the second phase of its three-part store reopening program on July 22, cutting the ribbon on 54 former Hills locations in six [...]

Thousands of employees who work at Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville are reminded daily of the business philosophy and leadership principles of company founder Sam Walton. He dispensed countless pearls [...]

Given the size of Costco's box and the traffic its clubs generate, growth has been something that it has had to approach with caution. And now more than ever, the [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN. -- At 40 stores, Dollar General's larger-format Market concept with expanded grocery offerings still represents less than 1% of the retailer's more than 7,800 U.S. stores. Yet, a [...]

Rapid growth and all the headaches that go along with it have monopolized Dollar Tree's focus in recent years as the single-price retailer grew aggressively through acquisition, spent millions on [...]

BJ's is a different club than it was just three years ago. Indeed, it's even running a different club now, ProFoods, in addition to its namesake units. As it uses [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- At its annual shareholders meeting, Wal-Mart Stores said it is limiting the number of U.S. supercenters it opens in fiscal 2008. Wal-Mart's new growth plans call for [...]

In a speech at a Town Hall Los Angeles luncheon last week, Wal-Mart chief executive Lee Scott clarified the company's plans for expansion in California and defended the company's record [...]

Target Stores celebrated yesterday the grand opening of 27 stores in 14 states. The retailer opened stores in Arizona (3), Florida (1), Georgia (1), Iowa (1), Illinois (3), Indiana (4), [...]

Retailers have historically used absolute sales and sales growth as the primary means for measuring category success. Those metrics will always be fundamental to defining success, but when considering the [...]

Wal-Mart's march across borders is steady as the retailer looks beyond the United States for its future growth. But international expansion won't only bring the retail giant greater size and [...]

A year and a half after Wal-Mart's first supercenter in California opened in La Quinta, the number of supercenters in the state stands at just five units, including a 205,000-square-foot [...]

After resolving to make hard decisions on closing stores and retooling pricing policies, Wal-Mart Germany is adding a perishables distribution center and building on improvements in merchandising to kick-start growth [...]

Wal-Mart continues to struggle in its effort to persuade financial analysts that same-store sales growth is no longer the most important indicator of its performance. Weak same-store sales relative to [...]

Fast forward to this fall and imagine for a second your favorite football team, the one that normally vies for a national championship, has begun the season with several consecutive [...]

Target's upscale positioning has brought both accolades and raised eyebrows by the many who have wondered if the company's upmarket positioning will backfire, leaving the discounter in the dust. But [...]

When Wal-Mart added its exclusive Child of Mine brand by Carter's to infantwear in 2003, the retailer made clear its desire to grow its baby department business. Not only did [...]

The anti-big box battle in the Big Apple is escalating as Wal-Mart and other retailers continue to announce plans to expand in New York City and the surrounding metro areas. [...]

Since the inaugural issue in June of Connecting Northwest Arkansas: A Supplier Resource Quarterly, the retail community in and around Bentonville has seen its share of milestones. Wal-Mart again announced [...]

Wal-Mart has maintained a slow-growth approach in Argentina since it opened for business there in 1995 and it currently has just 11 supercenters for a market of 39 million. And [...]

At first, industry watchers may have been surprised to hear that Lawrence Jackson, former president and coo of Dollar General, left the company to join Wal-Mart as the evp of [...]

Membership Warehouse Club Sales Soaring Sales for membership clubs jumped 31% to $10.7 billion in 1987. Top 12 chains now account for 95% of total industry sales. The wholesale/warehouse club [...]

NATIONWIDE DSN REPORT - Target's July blitz of 22 store openings, including the discounter's first unit in Pennsylvania, unveiled several new features including a new security system, a DVD promotion, [...]

The Top 3 Discounters Jockey for Position K mart, Wal-Mart, Target Develop Their Strategies Like a modern day General Sherman, Wal-Mart has continued its march to the sea--and the Canadian [...]

Ames Joins Industry Giants; Zayre Conversions `On Plan' CROMWELL, Conn. -- Compared to the previous two meetings, when the company had to deal with a heavy inventory shrinkage problem, this [...]

Dollar Stores Infiltrate Depressed Markets If the discount store industry is a jungle, dollar stores are guerrilla warriors: small stores built quickly, inexpensively, operating on market terrain too restrictive for [...]

The Fastest Growing Discount Chains As could be expected, new retailing concepts, like office supply megastore chains, are liberally represented among the discount industry's growth leaders. Less expected is the [...]

Leading Discount Chains: The Big Get Bigger The big got bigger in 1988, as the leading chains in the discount department store, catalog showroom, membership warehouse club, dollar store and [...]

Capital's Affordability Fuels Growth SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's capital is currently reaping rewards for not being one of the state's expensive coastal cities. Both businesses and individuals looking to escape [...]