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Byline: Bob Brown Walmart will slash, well, trim the price of an entry-level iPhone 5 to $189.97, less than the standard $199 price (with two-year contract) that Apple announced at [...]

What price a Nokia Windows Phone?Days after Nokia's Lumia 710 arrived on store shelves, big-box retailer Wal-Mart began offering the midrange smartphone for free with a two-year contract. Tech writers [...]

Apple's 16GB iPhone 3GS now retails for $97 at Wal-Mart stores with a two-year contract, a massive price reduction in the weeks before a next-generation iPhone is expected to make [...]

Despite announcements and campaigns touting further price reductions, Wal-Mart raised its food prices 2.3% since February, and between January and February raised prices 1.9%, according to a study by JPMORGAN [...]

Byline: ELLIOT ZWIEBACH LAS VEGAS - Riesbeck's Food Markets, St. Clairsville, Ohio, has increased its price gap with Wal-Mart over the past two years while still maintaining an EDLP program [...]

Duke Calls for Expanded Health Care BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores, which led the way in reducing the price of generic drugs two years ago, favors reforming the U.S. health [...]

Wal-Mart Plans Aggressive Holiday Pricing How low can they go? Wal-Mart's prices, that is. The retail giant, which last week ignited a fierce price war over books when it said [...]

Walmart's current and past successes rely on its ever-present expansion efforts and focus on delivering low prices, such as its 'Everyday Low Price' promotion. However, the company's success stems from [...]

Wal-Mart Gains With Price Focus NEW YORK While domestic retailers worry about when the economy will improve so consumers come out of their shopping funk, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is using [...]

Wal-Mart on Sunday began start selling Apple's wildly popular iPhone at nearly 2,500 of its stores, but not at the $99 price that was previously expected. The retailer said it […]

Supermarkets remained successful in the second half of 2007 despite a lagging economy and rising food prices, reported Supermarket News (Apr. 21). In fact, 'the last two years have been [...]

Health-focused store brands have helped grocers differentiate themselves from members of channels who've traditionally hung their hats on low prices and limited SKU assortments. Mindful of these lines' ability to [...]

Just in time for the holidays, Wal-Mart has re-stocked a Linux-based PC that sells for $199. A check of the retailer's Web site Tuesday revealed that the Everex TC2502 Green […]

It probably won't run Crysis or other state-of-the-art games, but a Linux-based PC that Wal-Mart began offering this week for $199 should get the job done for e-mail, Web browsing, […]

WAL-MART will reduce the prices of 15,000 items. Food products such as Mott's Apple Juice, Progresso Soups and Hillshire Farm Cocktail Smokies, along with electronics, home, and toys prices will [...]

Eleven monthly refills have passed since Wal-Mart Stores' disruptive decision to offer certain generic drugs for $4 per 30-day supply. Although many supermarkets have matched the scheme or devised plans [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - In a shift away from its traditional EDLP model, Wal-Mart Stores here is implementing some aggressive promotional pricing on certain items in at least a handful of [...]

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 [...]

ROGERS, Ark. - Despite a flirtation with higher-end merchandise, Wal-Mart's top apparel executive on Thursday recommitted the retailer to bargain prices and rollbacks. Claire Watts, executive vice-president, apparel merchandising, said [...]

The competitive effects of WAL-MART SUPERCENTERS on prices at conventional supermarkets are explored in a report titled The Effect of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Grocery Prices in New England. Supercenters are [...]

'New Lower Prices!' 'Save on the items you buy most!' Aisles are screaming with promises of deals, as the encroachment of Wal-Mart Stores and other value competitors has pushed many [...]

More words than anyone would care to contemplate have been written about the Wal-Mart effect, specifically the discounter's ability to drain shoppers' dollars from conventional supermarkets. That phenomenon, of course, [...]

STROUDSBURG, Pa.-'Luxury' is a word Wal-Mart and Target emphasize in the packaging of their bedding collections, but the use of that word is about the only thing the two mass [...]

NEW YORK -- After rallying behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with its better-than-expected sales gain for June, shares in the retail sector took it on the chin Wednesday as oil reached [...]

Increased competition for consumers' money transfer business has sent prices lower in recent years, forcing even market leader Western Union to respond. And that was before Wal-Mart Stores Inc. began [...]

Quite a brouhaha is bubbling in California concerning Wal-Mart Stores' plans to plant 40 supercenters in the state in upcoming years. Among them is the effort emanating from several governmental [...]

If Wal-Mart's supercenters continue to expand at their current pace, within this decade, more than three-quarters of the nation's Krogers and Albertsons Inc. stores and more than half the Safeway [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here claims 'We sell for less' on signs throughout its supercenters, and most industry observers see no reason to doubt that claim. 'Selling for less [...]

When it comes to setting the lowest prices in town, nobody plays the game better than the five alternative discount retailers profiled here. Each has honed its model for extreme [...]

Food retailers will find nothing but tightly squeezed margins in their stockings this year. Supermarket operators around the country said that the aggressive pricing that has characterized the retail environment [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores has the space, the selection and the low prices. In the item-heavy health and beauty care aisles, these factors add up to a formidable competitor [...]

The same trend that helped drive longtime music chain Harmony House Records and Tapes Inc. out of business is benefiting another local company that sells music: Handleman Co. For several [...]

It's no secret that private-label grocery products can save shoppers money. But after visiting some stores in three areas of the country, SN's undercover shoppers found wide swings in the [...]

Soon it may be cheaper to buy a camera than it is to buy a roll of film. As consumers increasingly turn to one-time-use cameras as an everyday solution for [...]

Wal-Mart, Murphy Oil Prices Are Predatory I was totally amazed that you would editorialize about poor Wal-Mart and Murphy Oil without consulting someone in the petroleum marketing business to get [...]