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Shockwaves were felt throughout distribution and logistic departments within the industry when in June of 2003 Bentonville, AR-based Wal-Mart announced that beginning in January 2005, Wal-Mart was going to mandate […]

The club stores' siren song is hard for any manufacturer to resist. 'Send us truckloads of pallets filled with bulk items that will slash your packaging costs, and we will [...]

Why bother? Doesn't everyone know who the winner will be? Why bother investing in new stores, in remodeled stores, in new distribution centers, new technology systems? By acclamation isn't everyone [...]

How do you develop an integrated operating system that can simultaneously improve working capital, enhance revenue and margin, and improve order-to-delivery predictability? One innovative approach is to select and configure [...]

Not a day goes by when Wal-Mart's not in the news. And not a day goes by when industry players aren't watching Wal-Mart make news. For manufacturers, watching Wal-Mart means […]

There have been a list of complaints against the department store giant Wal-Mart and they have been sued by women employees who feel that the store's policies are discriminatory. They feel that women have been superseded and that their male counterparts have been promoted out of turn and many women have also been forced to visit strip joints during annual sales meetings or have been forced to view strip-tease sessions when celebrating birthday parties of their male counterparts.

If current growth rates hold up, the company that Sam Walton built will become the world's first trillion-dollar business within a decade. Far-fetched? Perhaps. But if you understand how Wal-Mart […]

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 [...]

Best-in-class private fleets are utilizing a blend of technologies and services that are tailored to mitigate costs. Here's how some of the most modern private fleets are being managed in [...]

The editors of Chain Store Age and the leaders of the Consumer Products, Retail and Distribution practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) teamed this winter with Leo J. [...]

Wal-Mart is not high on the list of Ryan Silvashy's and Tracy Shaw's favorite retailers. 'I have to steel myself up to go into this place,' Shaw grimly says, walking [...]

Carrefour-Primodes and Wal-Mart Stores currently lead the corporate world in employment and turnover. Their retailing models stand in opposition in some ways, and several of their managerial issues are examined.

A study examining the effects of Wal-Mart's entry into the retail markets of other businesses in five Nebraska and Kansas towns is discussed.

The results of WalMart's entry into the retail market of Maine is discussed.

Kmart Corp. and Wal-Mart have announced that they will implement CPFR after conducting pilot programs. CPFR is a business practice that is expected to reduce inventory costs and improve product availability. Guidlines for the program were published by the Voluntary Inter-Industry Commerce Standards association.

Retail Intelligence and The Institute of Grocery Distribution provide separate reports on the economics of Wal-Mart's retail business in the United Kingdom.

Wal-Mart Supercenter opened its first Blowout Video shop in its new unit in Moore, OK, on Oct 25, 1995. The prototype video rental department is double the size of those in its other supercenters and is operated by Rentrak subsidiary Blowout Entertainment on leased space. The department features livelier displays than any other department and is devoting 40% of its rental merchandise to new releases., BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores opened a new prototype for its supercenter video rental departments this month. Establishing a small bit of Hollywood in Moore, Okla., a stylishly decorated 2,200-square-foot [...]

Retailers have experienced a doubling in costs partly because of inflation and partly because of an increase in dollars spent per square foot. There is a mandatory requirement that the gross margin per square feet should rise in pace with the increasing costs or rise faster to get a good return on assets and equity. The experiences and strategies of Wal-Mart, Home Depot, The Gap and Nordstrom are analyzed., Lately, a lot of attention has been focused on reengineering, activity based costing, downsizing, or just straight cost reduction. One might believe that retailers who have embraced these new concepts [...]

The efforts some communities, regions and states are taking to prevent the development of Wal-Mart and other 'big box' stores are discussed. Vermont's Act 250 limits store development by allowing environmental reviews of such projects. Local governments must usually rely on zoning codes and planning to control store development. Voters in Greenfield, MA, rejected rezoning provisions that would have allowed the building of a Wal-Mart store.

When you get off Highway 101 at Exit 484A, you immediately fall into headachy traffic on access roads not designed for this crush. It is the kind of dysfunction that [...]

San Francisco--Tomorrow's food industry will be shaped in large measure by what position today's industry leaders take on a number of issues, including high technology, meeting consumer needs, systems and [...]

Wal- Mart Stores Executive VP of information systems (IS) Bob Martin and the managers under his division play a crucial role in the success of the US retailing giant. Martin and his subordinates meet their roles as IS managers bygoing out to the stores. They visit up to 10 stores across the US every week tomake sure that there are no unnecessary costs, wasted time and customer dissatisfaction. The persistence of Martin and his staff have resulted in efficient replenishment systems and faster customer service. The effectiveness of Wal-Mart's operations is credited to its IS efforts.

Wal-Mart Stores: Maybe you ain't seen nothing yet. Wal-Mart is moving into food retailing big time, writing its own rules of the road as it goes along -- and why [...]

Many factors contribute to making a company great, but perhaps none are as potent as the subject of a new book by Roy Spence: It's Not What you Sell, It's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Times are tough for many small grocery and general merchandise chains: big-box retailers are moving in with lower prices and wider selection. Seven-location grocer Plumb's Inc. almost bowed [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] About a century alter Marshall Field coined the phrase 'Give the lady what she wants,' one of the legendary merchant's spiritual descendants, Sam Walton, founded the discount retail [...]

The Wal-Mart Packaging Scoreboard of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is a tool to help the company evaluate the sustainability of their suppliers' packaging based on material value and greenhouse gas emissions related to packaging production and transportation among others. The program aims to reach a 5% overall packaging reduction by 2013.

THE TRADITIONAL STORE THAT MADE Wal-Mart a retail giant is fading away. For the past decade, Wal-Mart has either closed its discount stores and opened a Supercenter in the shadow [...]

Differentiate, know your community, and never get comfortable. This is the ValuMarket credo today. It has changed profoundly since the company was founded in 1978, when friends Frank Neumann and [...]

The effect of the business practices of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on the trends of retail trade and consumer behavior in the United States is described.

The impact of the business practices of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on the ethical and social trends of retail trade is described.

What goes up must come down--except perhaps for fuel prices. 'No one believes the price of fuel will be moving down,' said Tim Lynch, senior VP, American Trucking Association (ATA), [...]

Discussions of high performance retailing could easily take hours on cross docking in the distribution center, line busting at the point of sale or data mining in the IT department. [...]

When Wal-Mart handed its vendors firm and very public marching orders to use radio-frequency identification tags on goods shipped to the retailing giant by Jan. 1, it gave a quiet [...]

Next month 200 suppliers will hear what Wal-Mart expects in the next phase of its deployment of radio frequency identification technology Meanwhile, its top 100 suppliers have only six months [...]

AS WAL-MART SUPERcenters are about to storm into California, grocery store chains and unions are bracing themselves for possible casualties. Next month, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville will open its [...]

MANY OF THE LARGEST publicly traded companies headquartered in Arkansas -- including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville, the world's largest company -- are still 'family' businesses in a very real [...]

The PHC industry can learn a great deal from other branches of the service sector. For example, note the competition between Wal-Mart and K-Mart, the major players in the 'sell [...]

Lee Scott, ceo of the world's largest company and Retail Merchandiser's 2003 Retail Executive of the Year, proved his mettle and picked up the mantle for future leadership during one [...]

Byline: Anne Wallace Allen It's been a fast ride for Kelly Knopp, the marketing and events manager for Crooked Fence Brewing Company. Knopp, 32, was working for the Boys & [...]

Byline: SHARON EDELSON Wal-Mart's Next Gen: Leaders Vow 'To Win' Despite flat same-store sales and lackluster earnings, Wal-Mart aims to 'win' the upcoming holiday season. That bravado came on Wednesday [...]

Byline: Bernadette Starzee Name: Kirk Christian Title: Store Manager, Valley Stream Supercenter Company: Wal-mart Favorite pastimes: Camping and spending time outdoors with family Kirk Christian began working part-time at a [...]