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Executive Summary: Dialing In on Flawless Execution Economic conditions, demographic changes, consumer behavior and technology innovations ... during the past decade, these forces converged to set off cataclysmic changes in [...]

The New York State lottery's long-time ad tagline is that all you need is 'a dollar and dream.' The story of Markham, Ontario, Canada-based Everything For A Dollar might well [...]

Many retail segments have contracted in recent years, but dollar stores are on the rise. They compete with home improvement businesses in several categories, such as small hardware items, cleaning [...]

NEW YORK -- E-commerce in the United States continues to expand at a double-digit pace, far outpacing overall retail growth and accounting for most of the growth in the industry [...]

It starts with our value equation,' said president and CEO Bob Sasser when asked why Dollar Tree is the fastest growing national chain in the deep-value retail segment, and the [...]

Byline: Elaine Misonzhnik, Retail Traffic Associate Editor The time may have come for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the ultimate big-box retailer, to shift its focus from superstores to smaller convenience stores [...]

Byline: Mark Hamstra SMALL-FORMAT STORES might be as important to Wal-Mart's future expansion as its EDLP platform has been to its historic growth. 'It represents a long-term opportunity for them, [...]

Byline: David Bodamer, Retail Traffic Editor-in-Chief In the latest update from RBC Capital Markets on retailer planned store openings, tenants continue to increase their projections for growth as measured by [...]

Byline: Elaine Misonzhnik A $7.6 billion buyout offer for Family Dollar Stores Inc. is just the latest sign that this once-maligned corner of the retail world continues to gain respectability. [...]

Byline: Petah Marian Russia's leading grocery retailer X5 Retail Group's acquisition of soft discounter Kopeyka will give it a stronger base to drive aggressive growth plans in a heavily fragmented, [...]

Byline: Evan Clark Wal-Mart, Saks In Focus on Wall St. It was a bipolar day on wall street Wednesday, with investors reading the tea leaves at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s [...]

Byline: David Bodamer One of the overriding themes at ICSC RECon 2010 was that retailers were becoming increasingly active in looking for strategic opportunities to expand. Those observations mesh with [...]

The economic and competitive environment is brutal, but, as the old saw goes, there may be some opportunities to make those lemons into lemonade. While Wal-Mart's 'Win-Play-Show' strategy could result [...]

NEW YORK - Family Dollar Stores is working to broaden its appeal to middle-income customers to keep sales growing once the economy recovers, R. James Kelly, president and chief operating [...]

Black Friday Challenge: Stores Test Strategies To Lure Wary Shoppers Game on and retailers don't want to take chances with the fragile consumer psyche. After more than a year of [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Walmart Stores Inc. announced its global plans for store and club growth in 2010 at its annual conference for the investment community Thursday. 'Our plan for growth [...]

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Family Dollar is acting quickly to capitalize on the demand for value and convenience. The chain expects about 40% of its 6,660 stores will have shelf space [...]

Wal-Mart may have stoked a reputation for sameness but over the years it has amassed quite a diverse collection of store formats, and it's a portfolio undergoing massive change. Most [...]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - Costco Wholesale Corp. here is taking its international expansion slowly. The membership-club operator ranks 8th on SN's list of global food retailers (see Page 14). Of its [...]

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores expects to boost its U.S. growth in 15 'opportunity markets,' Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and chief executive officer of the company's Wal-Mart U.S. division, said here [...]

NATICK, Mass. - It appears BJ's Wholesale Club won't have to search very far for its next chief executive after all. Herb Zarkin, the veteran chairman of the retailer who [...]

By Dana French Changes afoot in Playthings' annual retailer rankings A quick look at America's 2007 Top 25 playthings retailers reveals one undeniable truth: video games and their related handheld [...]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - While private-label dollar growth historically has been driven by higher prices, unit sales are now growing as well, according to the Nielsen Co. Store-brand volume grew 3% [...]

America has lots of problems, but a lack of stores isn't one of them. No presidential candidates are campaigning on the platform of accelerating the expansion of food retailers. Neither [...]

SHOREVIEW, Minn. - Along with the rapid growth in the number of retail convenient-care clinics in the United States, 10 third-party companies representing a total of 139 clinics called it [...]

BARCELONA, Spain - Wal-Mart's India operations could account for as much as $10 billion in sales within the next five to seven years, according to an executive with Bharti Enterprises, [...]

The subprime mortgage crisis has come to roost for retailers relying on new stores for growth. The slowdown in home sales has slowed migrations to places like Florida, which for [...]

When Wal-Mart Stores opened the first Sam's Wholesale Club in Midwest City, Okla., in 1983 it was intended as a vehicle for parent Wal-Mart Stores to enter urban markets. Within [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. - Rick Dreiling, the former Safeway executive now in charge of Dollar General Corp., promised changes at the neighborhood discounter. In a conference call reviewing results of a [...]

There's nothing so exciting in retailing as a chain expanding at a breakneck pace. But such rollouts eventually slow or end, often accompanied by lots of soul-searching. That's been the [...]

PHILADELPHIA - Wal-Mart Stores will increase its focus on building supercenters in the Northeast in the near future, with 20 units planned for 2008, including 10 this month. Shoppers in [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- For years, building Supercenters was Walmart's most reliable path to growth. But with 90% of Americans living within 10 miles of one of its stores, the company [...]

NEW YORK -- Dollar stores continue to be the most vibrant segment of value retailing in the United States, and with the largest players smoothly executing proven strategies, nothing short [...]

BOSTON - It's Christmastime at Wal-Mart, but you wouldn't know it by the men's department. Judging by the basics-driven assortment stocked in stores, it looks like the world's largest retailer [...]

The club channel has been a favorite of the natural and organic set for some time as an alternative to mainstream supermarkets. Though club stores carry fewer SKUs, the top [...]

The law of supply and demand is catching up with the emerging retail health clinic business. With high-profile chains like CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart projecting rapid growth for clinics in [...]

Guess Inc. executives at the annual shareholders meeting last week at the Beverly Hills hotel were upbeat about the company's financial health. Guess president and COO Carlos Alberini said, 'This [...]

The pace of global food retailing for the Top 25 players picked up in 2006, with companies continuing to rationalize market strengths. Wal-Mart Stores, the leader of the pack, pulled [...]

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Costco Wholesale Corp. said it plans to improve its financial picture in 2007 by boosting warehouse unit numbers and stripping out operational inefficiency, executives said at the [...]

At first blush it seemed last week's business media headlines heralded supermarket nirvana. 'Wal-Mart Scales Back Expansion,' stated the Wall Street Journal. 'Wal-Mart to Slow Growth in U.S. Market,' blared [...]

TEANECK, N.J. - Wal-Mart Stores uttered the words supermarket operators have longed to hear last week when the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail juggernaut said it would moderate its growth pace in [...]

One of the most intract-able problems facing the food distribution industry is that of over-storing - the situation that in many parts of the country there are too many food [...]

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 [...]

NEW YORK -- BJ's Wholesale Club, Natick, Mass., expects to begin rolling out new stores that blend the best elements of its two Florida prototypes in 2007. As previously disclosed, [...]