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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.

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 [...]

Wal-Mart, of course, is unchallenged in the discount store arena, where it is roughly five to six times the size of its nearest competitor, Target Stores. What some people don't [...]

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 [...]

It's a good thing chain drug stores are generating strong business from their pharmacy departments and front ends--where many of the leading chains are expanding their assortments of convenience foods, [...]

THIS IS 'THE STUFF OF LIFE.' That's Kmart's new slogan, and it couldn't be more appropriate. In the retailing jungle, life is dangerous. The slow and ponderous animals are devoured [...]

Kmart's implosion may have registered a devastating 7 on the Richter Scale, but it has sent relatively mild shock waves through the retail industry. Hundreds of stores will indeed go [...]

Low-price, dollar discount stores are beginning to steal the thunder from their higher-profile big-box competitors. The store count development of traditional general merchandise discount stores has slowed to a crawl [...]

Washington, Benton Counties Escape Recent Hard Times RELYING ON THE SPIRIT of a contrarian, northwest Arkansas has reaped incredible prosperity since the 1980s. Consider the following: * With infrastructure problems [...]

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' [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

NEW YORK -- Most retailers would love to have Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s problems. The world's largest company on Wednesday bemoaned second-quarter sales that were below plan, but reported that earnings [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Sam Walton is buried in the cemetery directly behind Wal-Mart's headquarters, within sight of its huge data satellites and surrounded by the rapidly populating cities that are [...]

Fashion has long been predicated on exclusivity, from the rarified world of haute couture to the annual quest for the handbag du jour, where long waiting lists only add to [...]

BOSTON -- Deceptively unassuming. Like many things about Wal-Mart, that description fits the chain's footwear department. It's relatively small, hugs the back wall of the store and has a tendency [...]

Results at retail last week failed to deliver the late-Easter boost many had hoped for, reinforcing the sense that any improvements in sales results are likely to take place during [...]

Sears' Q1 Profits Rise, But Sales Fall On Weak Economy Sears is continuing its rollout of Lands' End footwear and apparel in all retail stores across the country Oakley's First-Quarter [...]

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision last week to prohibit further challenges of a tax increment financing plan for the 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter planned for [...]

* Tax Collectors Object to Kmart's Disclosure Statement Agents claim plan doesn't account for money owed in Philadelphia and Florida * Goldblatt's Department Stores Bow Out Liquidation sales begin for [...]

Wal-Mart Nears $250B Byline: Evan Clark NEW YORK - The contrary economic environment was able to slow down the Bentonville behemoth only slightly in the fourth quarter. In a rare [...]

With Wal-Mart Stores carrying the day on price and value on one side, and Kohl's Corp. and J.C. Penney Co. providing more upscale price and brand pressure on the other, [...]

Q: Which is bigger in terms of worldwide sales: the semiconductor industry or Wal-Mart? A: Wal-Mart. The retailer is expected to have realized sales of $235 billion in 2002, according […]

The world's largest company Thursday reported it had lowered its December same-store sales forecast once again as the days leading up to Christmas produced 'too little, too late.' The Bentonville, [...]

Likely tiring from the lengthy public comment session during a recent special meeting on the Wal-Mart tax increment financing plan, Councilman-at-large Eddie Sapir suddenly raised a pointed question to one [...]

Byline: Matthew Grimm The manifest expansion of our retail landscape has engendered some of the grossest dichotomies of the American mind: the sacred cow of free enterprise versus the bygone […]

Phoenix Footwear Group, Old Town, Maine, said total net sales for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 were $9.5 million, a decrease of 2.2 percent compared with last year's third [...]

Rank, Retailer, Location, Percentage of Dollar Sales 1. Payless ShoeSource, Topeka, Kan., Percentage of Dollar Sales*: 6.06 Payless has garnered the top spot in no small part due to heavily [...]

MATING GAME: A pair of Internet-based marketing and media survivors announced acquisition deals Tuesday. Gen Y-focused Alloy Inc. has bought most assets of Youthstream Media Networks for $7 million in [...]

NEW YORK -- Santa went bargain hunting for beauty this year. The jolly old fellow skipped the shopping malls and instead landed right in front of Wal-Mart and Walgreens. With [...]

NEW YORK -- It may be too little too late. With just seven days left before Christmas, retailers have yet to get into gear. Still, they are holding out hope [...]

Arkansas' two major retailers reporting diverging sales trends last week. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville said same-store sales increased 6.3 percent in September. Total company sales rose 14.8 percent to [...]

Not only has Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Markets division, opened in 1998, declared its first profits, there soon will be more of the traditional grocery stores popping up around the country. The [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says tax rebate dollars have not had an 'overly significant' impact on its sales. The retailer also said it. backed the Thomson Financial/First Call analyst consensus earnings [...]