Top 10 Walmart-related stories this week . . . Exxon Overtakes Walmart In Fortune 500– Corporate Counsel Research Shows Walmart Beating Target In Online Shopping– Baltimore Sun Asda May Add Holograms To Sales Staff– Telegraph Sam’s Club Members Mark Brand Garbage Bags Trashed By Competition– Kansas City Walmart Acknowledges Impact Of Sustainable Packaging– Packaging Digest [...]
Top 10 Walmart Headlines – May 7, 2012
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Top 10 Walmart-related stories this week . . . Warren Buffett States That Walmart “May Have Made a Mistake” – Reuters The Ways In Which Consumers Will Pay For Walmart’s Mexican Scandal – Motley Fool / Daily Finance U.S. Department Of Labor Recovers $4.83 Million In Back Wages, Damages For More Than 4,500 Walmart Workers [...]
Top 10 Walmart Headlines – April 30, 2012
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Top 10 Walmart-related stories this week . . . Latest Stories and Opinions On Walmart's Mexican Bribery Scandal – WalmartHelp.com Walmart Appoints Compliance Officer, Castro-Wright Resigns From MetLife Board – Reuters Is Crisis Communications Expert What Walmart Really Needs? – O'Dwyer's Blog Cross-Merchandising Puts Teeth In Oral Care Marketing – RetailWire Final Four Days In [...]
Top 10 Walmart Headlines – April 23, 2012
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Top Walmart-related stories this week . . . SPECIAL Round-Up Of the Latest News In the Walmart Mexican Bribery Scandal – WalmartHelp.com Walmart Cover-Up Of Corruption In Mexico – New York Times Retail Sales In U.S. Show Increase of 0.8 Percent, Other Economic News Mixed – Reuters, Commerce Department Sam's Club Recipe Attracts Pinterest Users [...]
Walmart, big-box stores linked with hate groups in study | Hot Topics | an SFGate.com blog
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SFGate.com: “The number of big-box retailers in a community can have social and economic effects that lead to the formation of hate groups, a recent study found. Researchers found a stronger correlation between the number of Walmart stores in a county and local hate group activity than other factors such as unemployment, crime and low [...]
Walmart previews ‘Disc to Digital’ movie service
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ROSEMEAD, Calif. – — Walmart Stores Inc. previewed its “Disc to Digital” service for converting DVDs into an online library on Wednesday. Based on my experience, I’d give it a six out of 10. That’s the number of discs I was able to convert from a completely unscientific sampling of my personal DVD library. The [...]
Walmart International focusing on own business over deals – Reuters
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT.N is emphasizing improving results in international markets where it already operates, such as China, over entering new markets, its top international executive said on Thursday. “Our focus this year in particular has been on improving returns with our existing businesses,” said Doug McMillon, chief executive officer of Walmart International. The company [...]
Walmart Exec Donates $27.5 Million to Sustainability School – Earth911.com
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Rob Walton (right) and wife, Melani, pose with Arizona State University President Michael Crow. Photo: Daniel Cavanaugh/Global Institute of Sustainability/Arizona State University Arizona State University is about to become a whole lot greener. Figuratively speaking, anyway. Walmart chairman of the board and co-chairman of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability Rob Walton and his wife, Melani, [...]
Walmart to build supercenter on Sportsman’s Park site – Chicago Tribune
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A new 190,000-square-footWal-MartSupercenter is poised to come to the former Sportsman’s Park racetrack site in Cicero. Plans call for the mega-retailer to purchase 21 acres for $7.5 million near the 3400 block of South Cicero Avenue, according to town documents. An agreement is expected to be announced Tuesday. Construction will begin in spring 2013, with [...]
Target to test Wal-Mart’s mettle in Canada – chicagotribune.com
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TORONTO/CHICAGO (Reuters) – With Target Corp opening its doors in Canada next spring, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is likely to do what it does best – slash prices – to protect its share of a multibillion-dollar market it has dominated for nearly two decades. The world’s largest retailer has already taken the offensive, putting into motion [...]
