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Last week, Costco opened its first warehouse store in Manhattan amid a torrent of publicity. The chain operates outlets in Brooklyn and Staten Island and is about to open its [...]

Like just about any other newspaper executive, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette General Manager Paul Smith had never heard of Walmart.com Classifieds until it had been quietly operating for about a month. Most [...]

At the end of its most recent fiscal year, Wal-Mart's International division included 3,121 stores generating sales of $90.6 billion. Some of its international operations are wholly owned (in Argentina, [...]

FAMILY DOLLAR STORE'S success with its expanded food offering is being driven by a tendency among lower-income shoppers to make frequent fill-in shopping trips. Family Dollar in February began rolling [...]

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 [...]

The nation's biggest brand names are entering the financial services market in ways that are raising questions about the future face of the competition. Mark Ernst, the chief executive officer [...]

WAL-MART'S SOUTH KOREA SALE: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is selling its South Korean retail business to Shinsegae Co. for $882 million, the retailer said Monday. Shinsegae, which operates 79 E-Mart hypermarkets [...]

WAL-MART PURCHASE: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has been buying midsized retail chains in Latin America, boosted its Brazilian operations Wednesday by purchasing 140 Sonae stores from Portuguese conglomerate Modelo Continente [...]

The American Trucking Assns. (ATA) has named Rick Foster, director of fleet safety for Wal-Mart Transportation LLC, the 2005 ATA Safety Director of the Year. Foster is responsible for the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark.-Wal-Mart Stores is clearing a passage to India. John Menzer, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart International, met with Indian government officials and Prime Minister Manmohah Singh last [...]

* The Family Dollar discount chain plans to open at least eight new stores in the Wichita, KS area and three elsewhere in that state as part of a new [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores has promoted Robert DiPiazza to the position of senior vice president and general merchandise manager for its Sam's Club division, in recognition of his six [...]

LA QUINTA, Calif. -- In an ironic confluence of events, Wal-Mart Stores is scheduled to open its first California supercenter here Wednesday, just as the Southern California strike-lockout -- inspired [...]

* In North Georgia and East Tennessee, Wal-Mart Stores began testing a program in October that involves rebranding 16 existing National Bank of Commerce branches as Wal-Mart Money Centers by [...]

With the addition of 1,000 new products and an expanded merchandising and marketing staff, Wal-Mart's 282-store Asda division in the United Kingdom is turning up the heat on its health [...]

The untold story behind the success of the most revered company in retail resides in a squat, gray building on the outskirts of Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart Distribution Center No. 6094 [...]

At the new Mount Kisco store it opened last week, Target Stores Inc. extended up-county the layout prototype it quietly debuted 18 months ago in White Plains and later brought [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- In its last salvo of new-store openings for the current fiscal year ending Jan. 31, Wal-Mart last month opened almost 60 units. That push represents the final [...]

Oklahoma is often associated with tornadoes, humorist Will Rogers and the 1943 Broadway show tune bearing the state's name. Oklahoma is also home to the Choctaw Indian Nation and Lake [...]

The growth of the Reject Shop as a biggest rival in the discount variety sector is analyzed. The company has outperformed all others in the industry showing a net profit growth of 34.5% between 2001 and 2003.

REALIGNMENT IN EAST: Walmart has chosen Atlanta as the headquarters of its realigned eastern business unit. The unit comprises nearly 1,600 stores in 20 states from Florida to Maine. 'With [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Costco Wholesale Corporation, the US parent of Costco UK, has posted an 8% drop in sales in its international division in the year to 30 August. Costco's international [...]

MEXICO: Wal-Mart Mexico has completed the largest solar panel project in Latin America, with more than 1,000 solar panels on the roof of a Bodega Aurrera store in the province [...]

A 14,000-square-foot office and warehouse building on Starboard Street in Chula Vista sold for $3.29 million. The building is one of 13 in Venture Commerce Center--Eastlake, an office and flex [...]

Prithi Patel, O.D., joins Wal-Mart Optical Division as director of professional relations. She graduated NOVA Southeastern in 2004 and completed a residency in primary care and ocular disease at Pennsylvania [...]

Schneider Logistics Inc., Green Bay, WI, has announced that its American Port Services subsidiary has signed a significant warehousing contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Under the contract, American Port Services [...]

Wal-Mart's British subsidiary, Asda, unveiled its new discount concept store in a suburb of Northampton, some 60 miles northwest of London. Called Asda Essentials, the small 8,000-square-foot store will not […]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Community involvement has always been a way of life at Wal-Mart, a commitment that extends from the top of the organization to the store associate level. When [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- While Wal-Mart's recent fashion initiatives have perhaps garnered more headlines, the retailer's electronics department is no less vital to its effort to lure more well-heeled shoppers. Wal-Mart's [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- As Wal-Mart has begun to penetrate more developed and more highly populated markets it has found it necessary to modify and adapt its store prototypes to suit [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The revamping of Wal-Mart's operations organization has generally won plaudits from Wall Street analysts, who consider it of major importance. 'In our view this is one of [...]

Wal-Mart is planning to operate 90 stores in China by the end of 2006, while its Japanese division is reporting losses. Lawrence Lee, regional operations director for eastern China, told [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. -- Dollar General hit a store-expansion milestone last year with the opening of its 7,000th outlet. The store opened in July 2004 in Clovis, N.M. 'This large group [...]

PriceSmart Settlement: PriceSmart Inc., the San Diego-based operator of foreign warehouse club stores primarily located in the Caribbean, said it entered into a settlement agreement with a minority shareholder of [...]

Outside of file traditional drug store industry, no mass merchandise or supermarket retailer appears as firmly committed to pharmacy in 2005 as Target Stores. With an aggressive pharmacy expansion program [...]

Odessa, Texas is located halfway between Dallas/Fort Worth and El Paso on Interstate Highway 20 in the heart of West Texas. Odessa is big enough to demand superior roadway and [...]

NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s plans for a flagship store in New York City have been derailed by the developer's decision to drop the retailer from the project. According [...]