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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, [...]
Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability has received a $27.5 million gift from the Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation. ASU said it will use the money to address problems and create solutions in such areas as energy, water, climate, urbanization, social transformation and decision-making. The gift will help fund [...]
Walmart has awarded a $50,000 grant to the San Diego Unified School District that will be used to encourage kindergartners to read at three schools, district officials said. The grant will be used to support the Raising a Reader program at Sherman, Perkins and Rodriguez elementary schools. District officials said they will use the money [...]
Small businesses have struggled to compete against larger ones for generations. ‘The Great A&P’ offers a historical look at the country’s first retail giant. At one point, it was opening new stores nearly as fast — seven per day — as some competitors could open their mail. A relentless cost-cutter, it hewed to an everyday-low-prices [...]
Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one state wildlife expert called the worst mass bird crash she’d ever seen. Crews went to work cleaning up the [...]
Citigroup found that toy prices at both Walmart and Target fell by 4% and that the price gap between the two retailers on toys has narrowed since its first survey. According to Ciitgroup, retail prices of a basket of “hot” toys for holiday 2011 are now 30 bps cheaper at Walmart than at Target, compared [...]
Ordering Groceries Online from Walmart May 2, 2011 Last week, several news sources reported that Walmart customers living in some Silicon Valley neighborhoods can now order their groceries online for next-day home delivery. If this pilot program, based in San Jose, proves a success, Walmart may expand its Walmart To Go online grocery delivery service [...]
Walmart is plowing through its global responsibility goals, cutting down on plastic waste, improving energy efficiency in factories, and reshaping the crop diversity of entire U.S regions. But it’s doing a less-than-stellar job when it comes to doing right by its workers. According to a new report (PDF) from the University of California, Berkeley, Walmart [...]
Two leading television advertisers say they are producing five new TV movies designed for families to watch together. The first, “Truth Be Told,” airs Friday on Fox. It’s a romantic comedy about a relationship expert who fakes her own marriage to help a couple in trouble. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Procter & Gamble Co. [...]
Larry King is coming back to TV — but not as a talk show host. The former CNN host has shot an infomercial for BreathGemz breath fresheners along with his wife, Shawn Southwick, according to AdAge. King also has shot an ad for Walmart in which he interviews a 6-year-old girl about a fish that [...]
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