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BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- Lawrence Jackson became the first African-American at Wal-Mart to hold the title of president and ceo when he was tapped to lead the retailer's expanding global procurement [...]

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 [...]

UPSCALE DALLAS, TEXAS STRATEGIES MAY ENTICE BROADER CUSTOMER BASE BY DEBBIE HOWELL Wal-Mart's rural heritage and positioning as a low-price discounter serving a core low-to middle-income customer built the foundation [...]

The level of construction activity in China is one of the most striking reminders that the world's most populous nation also has the fastest-growing economy. Construction cranes are visible from [...]

BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- Wal-Mart in a few weeks will announce the square footage of new selling space and how many stores it plans to add next year. Unless the company [...]

NEW YORK -- Chicago's recently approved 'big box' ordinance, which mandates that large stores within city limits raise wages to $10 per hour plus $3 in benefits by 2010, has [...]

Wal-Mart this week challenged research that claims the state of California paid roughly $86 million in public assistance to Wal-Mart employees in 2001 due to low wages and poor benefits. [...]

Wal-Mart's image and initiatives to improve it took center stage at the retailer's annual shareholders meeting held on Friday. The event was a typical, upbeat affair that included numerous company [...]

Kmart is laying off an undisclosed number of employees and suing Martha Stewart to reduce by $4.5 million royalty payments due to Martha Stewart under a contract to bring her [...]

Following the arrests last week of 245 workers who are alleged to be illegally employed, Wal-Mart said this week that it will review all 1.1 million of its domestic employees [...]

Wal-Mart Stores has widened its discrimination policy to cover gay and lesbian workers, according to published reports. The expanded policy goes into effect immediately. The move comes on the heels [...]

Wal-Mart expects to hire another 800,000 people to work in its stores over the next five years, including 120,000 managers, the retailer announced at its annual meeting on June 7. […]

Target has reportedly informed employees who work an average of 20 hours a week or less that beginning in March 2004, their paid vacation and health care coverage will be [...]

Kmart, which expects to emerge from bankruptcy by April 30, will cut more than 600 jobs in an effort to save $150 million annually. About 400 of the job cuts [...]

With April 30 hanging low on the horizon as its target to emerge from bankruptcy, Kmart Corp. made some major shake-ups. In its latest round of belt-tightening, the chain will [...]

TROY, Mich. -- Kmart, which is preparing to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of April, announced Monday that it will cut more than 600 positions. About 400 of [...]

Kmart is redeveloping its human resources policies throughout the chain. More than 2,000 store managers from all its stores got together for the first time in the discount chain's history in Sep 1996. They met to discuss ways to do their jobs betters. This meeting was an attempt by executives to ensure store managers that their careers were important., For five days this past September, Kmart's 2,000-plus store managers did something unprecedented in the company's 35-year history: They all met in one place at one time to learn how [...]

Kmart is attempting to slim down by offering early retirement to about 500 employees at its Troy, Mich., headquarters. The packages are being offered to personnel 50 and over who [...]

Every retailer in the nation confronts the burden of a revolving door of hourly store-level employees, but only Wal-Mart faces the challenge of having to attract, retain and develop a [...]

With a nod to Nietzsche, Nick Nuccetelli contends that what hasn't killed Ames can only make it stronger. A regional vp whose territory includes the most diverse range of stores [...]

Always going the extra mile is a pillar of Ames' culture and part of a greater corporate philosophy that has ruled for more than 40 years. From headquarters to the [...]

Bringing the holiday spirit into the digital age, Tandy officially allowed its employees to shop on line on company computers during the holiday season. Citing studies that nearly one-third of [...]

Stop any store manager on the sales floor, on any given day and ask a few questions. Chances are that manager will speak with pride about his or her store, [...]

When it comes to courting and keeping quality employees-one of the biggest challengers in retail today-chains ranging from Wal-Mart to Gateway Computer are turning to outside search firms to tap [...]

Imagine this scenario: Just as the company is moving from a challenging reorganization, the ceo is recruited to a competitor, leaving an emerging business behind. The company and its directors [...]

First, the bad news. Retail industry hopes for staving off another stiff increase in the federal minimum wage rate are sinking faster than a cinder block in a swimming pool. [...]

BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- Less than a week after Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and ceo of Wal-Mart's U.S. stores division, saw his reporting relationship change, several executives who report to him saw [...]

NATIONWIDE DSNRT REPORT -- Pharmacy revenues account for just a fraction of total sales at warehouse dubs but they're one of the fastest-growing ancillary sectors. That's why warehouse dubs have [...]

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 [...]

BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- A major reshuffling of top executives at Wal-Mart clarifies the company's succession strategy and shifts a broad slate of executives into areas of new responsibilities that will [...]

BENTONVILLE, ARK. -- When Wal-Mart announced the grand opening of a new supercenter in Phoenix two months ago, mixed in with the description of the store's features was the fact [...]