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Byline: Isatou Ndure TikTok Shop’s 37% growth for the week ending 11 July 2024 saw the social commerce platform taking share from fast fashion giants Shein and Temu, which had [...]

Oppenheimer analyst Rupesh Parikh is more confident in Walmart's ability to translate a strong top line into healthier bottom line EPS growth down the road after meeting with management. The [...]

Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak said his analysis shows that Amazon (AMZN) gained 1.5% of U.S. apparel market share in 2017, largely at the expense of department stores. He estimates [...]

The retail world for food and beverages is a prime example of survival of the fittest -- or at least of the biggest. The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart is the [...]

One formidable competitor many independent d-i-y retailers face isn't a 'big-box' warehouse store. It doesn't even carry lumber, electrical conduit or pipe insulation. Nevertheless, nearly 80 percent of hardlines retailers [...]

In case you needed any hard evidence that Wal-Mart represents a real danger to your business, Ken Stone has it. Stone, an economics professor at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, [...]

It usually starts as a rumor. They are coming. A story's printed in the local paper, announcing that sites have been selected. Then one morning you reach in your mailbox [...]

Sears, Roebuck & Co. maintained its perennial position as the top retailer for vacuum cleaner sales in 1991, but that position was challenged more closely as such mass merchants as [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Asda emphasised today (15 November) that it has been able to win over market share as it reported slightly higher third-quarter sales. The UK arm of Wal-Mart [...]

Byline: Jon Springer IN OMAHA, where Warren Buffett built an empire behind shrewd investments and impeccable timing, food retailers are also moving to position themselves for fortune. In many recent [...]

Byline: Elliot Zwiebach KROGER CO. and Wal-Mart continue to battle it out in Little Rock, Ark., with Wal-Mart extending its lead this past year. The 12 Wal-Mart Supercenters and two [...]

Jennifer Marks, Editor-In-Chief The recent winners at retail -- basically, Walmart, off-pricers and dollar stores --share a common assertion: This new market share is ours and we're going to hang [...]

By Cecile B. Corral Bentonville, Ark.-- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s president and ceo, Mike Duke, tried to dispel suspicions that the discount department store chain's recent performance 'is just a result [...]

Amazon's shock 12.7bn [pounds sterling] deal to buy US grocery chain Whole Foods Market has savaged supermarket shares on both sides of the Atlantic. But winners and losers of Amazon [...]

As the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.3 percent, or 158 points, to 12,121 Monday, retail stocks slid deep into the red as investors fretted over Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s weak [...]

Byline: Michael Rudnick Mass merchants and wholesale clubs are not only the market-share leaders in floor care sales, but are soon approaching a majority position, as these retailers suck up [...]

NEW YORK -- It looks like low-priced merchandise is still king in the junior sportswear market. According to a recent survey conducted by Teenage Research Unlimited, teens and tweens prefer [...]

* Wal-Mart is on the verge of totally dominating the U.S. grocery retailing industry, according to an equity research report from Banc of America Securities, San Francisco. With estimated grocery, [...]

Houston drivers are voting with their wheels at the gasoline pumps. The grocery stores and 'hypermarts' that began selling gasoline at discounted prices last year have cut into the market [...]

NEW YORK -- Mass market general merchandise retailing is overwhelmingly a story of the dominance of national chains, and of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. above all. The regional discount store operators [...]

The news that Wal-Mart will soon become the country's largest company in terms of annual sales, reported recently by the New York Times, chilled me. The numbers will shake out [...]

Cincinnati-based supermarket operator Kroger Co., boosted by acquisitions, moved ahead of Sears Roebuck and Co. to become the nation's second-largest retailer behind Wal-Mart, the National Retail Federation reports. Wal-Mart led [...]

Wal-Mart has become Canada's largest department store chain, and has doubled its market share in the process, according to a report by Toronto-based consultant Kubas. Wal-Mart now holds 31% of [...]

It's been more than a year since Wal-Mart first opened its doors at the Wickford Junction Shopping Plaza in North Kingstown. And though merchants of Wickford agree there has been [...]

The ongoing consolidation trend among supermarket operators continues to be a major topic of conversation in the industry as the buying clout of these players increases. The nation's five largest [...]

Walgreen Co. has parlayed its proven strengths in market share, customer convenience and service innovations into a commanding position in the U.S. pharmacy market, and company leaders say the chain [...]

NEW YORK -- The grocery business may be big enough for the leading supermarket giants and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. too. Of course, many analysts worry that Wal-Mart's aggressive rollout of [...]

A SUPERCENTER COMES TO TOWN For a small-town retailer, it is a nigthmare come true. A big-time national chain moves into town with a mammoth store that sells both groceries [...]

Hypermarkets' one-size- ts-all philosophy strikes fear in the hearts of some merchants, but it can't beat your well-planned service and selection. As recently as 15 months ago, Bigg's in Cincinnati [...]

NORWALK, Conn. - Sears, the longtime share leader in vacuum cleaner sales, was displaced at the top by Wal-Mart in the second quarter, according to statistics released by Trendata, a [...]

WESTMINSTER -- Just about a year ago, Bart Stephens was busy as a bee preparing for the imminent opening of Westminster's first Wal-Mart, the fast-growing national discount retailer of, well, [...]

LONDON -- Walmart's Asda Group Ltd. plans to invest [pounds sterling]100 million ($155 million) to relaunch its core food range. The move is the latest effort by Britain's second-largest supermarket [...]

The competition between Walgreens and CVS Caremark, one based on their opposing views and definitions of chain drug retailing, is easily the most compelling industry story 2008 has to offer. [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart's acquisition of Asda PLC in 1999 gave it entry into the United Kingdom, one of the most mature, highly developed and competitive food retailing markets in [...]

BUYING POWER, EXPANSIVE ASSORTMENT and sheer store numbers are helping the mass merchants and wholesale clubs to continue to gobble up retail floor care market share, as the channel is [...]

LONDON -- Tesco LLC continues to increase its share of the United Kingdom market, according to research firm TNS. The U.K.'s largest food retailer owned 31.5% of the market for [...]

The anti-Wal-Mart film 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price' has sold nearly 100,000 DVDs its first month in release, peaking at No. 5 on Nielsen VideoScan's documentary sales chart. [...]

THE WAL-MARTING OF AMERICA is raging full steam ahead, affecting nearly every aspect of the retail landscape. Just ask FAO, Toys 'R' Us, the Musicland Group, Kmart and several supermarket [...]

* Asda (Wal-Mart) has overtaken J Sainsbury as Britain's second largest supermarket retailer. TNS figures showed Asda's market share at 17% in July, while Sainshury's share dipped to 16.2%. Much [...]

TOP GLOBAL RETAILERS SALES AND STORE BASE BY REGION * North America % of No. of Retailer Sales Total Sales Stores Wal-Mart (1) $200,231 91% 4,008 Carrefour (2) 633 1% [...]