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News on Wal Mart Stores (Ticker: WMT) continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

13 hrs ago | Fox News

Wal-Mart, Costco, Other Merchants Push Back Against Swipe-Fee Settlement

A group of 19 large retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , Costco Wholesale Corp.

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Related Topix: Retail, Costco Wholesale, MasterCard, Financial Services, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Business News

13 hrs ago | Reuters

Best Buy sees investments squeezing near-term profits

Best Buy Co Inc reported lackluster sales in the first quarter and warned that efforts to entice shoppers could squeeze profits in the near term.

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Retail, Amazon, Internet, Science / Technology, Marketing

15 hrs ago | Business Journal

Supply chain company moving U.S. headquarters to Milford

SPA Inc., a distribution, warehouse, logistics and packaging company based in Loveland, is expanding and moving its U.S. headquarters to Milford.

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Related Topix: Milford, CT, Best Buy, Retail

19 hrs ago | Daily Yomiuri

Asian Exchanges / H.K. stocks rise for 3rd day on U.S. data;...

Hong Kong stocks rose for a third day Monday, with the city's benchmark index closing at a three-month high, as Chinese developers gained on higher home prices and U.S. consumer sentiment topped estimates.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Transportation, Logistics, Li and Fung, Retail

23 hrs ago | War Is A Crime

Supreme Court Colludes with Monsanto

It's notoriously pro-business. It's longstanding. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway , it granted corporations legal personhood.

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Related Topix: Retail, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Financial Services, Federal Election Commission, Liberal Political News

Yesterday | Seeking Alpha

Bullish On Wal-Mart: Revisiting Long-Term Thesis

A few weeks ago I presented my investment thesis for Wal-Mart : Bullish On Wal-Mart As Record Highs Demand A New Approach To The Stock .

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Related Topix: Retail

Mon May 20, 2013

CSP

Walmart Express With Gas Station Opens in Princeton, N.C.

The Walmart Express small format continues to generate strong results, and in the second quarter, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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Related Topix: Princeton, NC, Retail

Minyanville

Bad News for Wal-Mart's Future?

This article was written by Claire Gordon and originally appeared on AOL Jobs . Wal-Mart tried to put a positive spin on its disappointing earnings report Thursday, which showed declining US sales.

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Related Topix: Retail, Adrian Edmondson, Target, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Qualcomm

Seeking Alpha

Could Target Finally Tip The Netflix Scale?

Last week probably wasn't the greatest of weeks for Netflix . On Thursday, we found out that Amazon had secured another content deal, reaching a milestone for Prime Instant Video .

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Related Topix: Retail, Target, Amazon, Financial Services, Computers, Coinstar, Google, Startups

Internet Retailer

Target opens an e-retail technology center

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has done it . Now Target Corp. has opened an office where data, technology and product experts will strive to increase the chain's strength in e-retail and mobile commerce.

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Related Topix: Retail, Target, Office Equipment, Staples, Social Software, Internet, Science / Technology

Business Journal

Raytown Walmart proposal has supporters, too

The Raytown Plaza is located across Blue Ridge Boulevard from a proposed Walmart Neighborhood Market that will be debated during the May 21 meeting of the city's board of aldermen.

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Related Topix: Raytown, MO, Retail

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

J. C. Penney: Inspections Required to be a Supplier from Bangladesh

The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh has spurred American retailer J. C. Penney Company to action.

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Related Topix: JC Penney, Retail, Bangladesh, World News

Sun May 19, 2013

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Who's a Better Employer: The Government or Wal-Mart?

"We find that nearly two million private sector employees working on behalf of America earn wages too low to support a family, making $12 or less per hour.

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Related Topix: Retail, Restaurant Management, Mcdonalds, SoftServe

AlertNet

EXCLUSIVE-Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts

A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF Corp.

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Related Topix: Bangladesh, World News, Asia, Retail, VF, Apparel, Greensboro, NC

Bloomberg

Seattle's Best to Open Stores in Wal-Mart Parking Lots

Seattle's Best Coffee, the chain owned by Starbucks Corp. , tomorrow will open 10 new locations mostly in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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Related Topix: Retail, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, Drink, Coffee, Bentonville, AR, US News

Sat May 18, 2013

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Should Walmart Be Worried About an Improving Economy?

When people are hurting for money, they shop where the prices are lowest and, for many Americans, that place is Walmart .

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Related Topix: Retail, Whole Foods Market, Grocery

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Groups divided on Bangladesh safety overhauls

The nation's largest retail industry organization fired back Friday, outlining reasons why a legally binding global pact to make Bangladesh clothing factories safer would expose merchants to undue legal exposure.

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Related Topix: The Federation, Alternative, US Politics, US News, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Albany, OH, New Albany, OH, Retail

Investopedia

Wal-Mart Uses Rigorous Cost Control To Offset Weaker Sales

It's no secret that a meaningful percentage of the country's retail business goes on under the roof of 's stores.

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Related Topix: Retail

Minyanville

Bangladesh, Cheap Production, and Worker Safety: The Cost of Externalities

The online petitions are multiplying as consumers worldwide react with shock and horror to last month's deaths of more than 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh toiling in conditions that might have made a Victorian-era chronicler cringe.

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Related Topix: Bangladesh, World News, Asia, Travel, Asia Travel, Bangladesh Travel, Retail,

Fri May 17, 2013

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal

Walmart, Sam's Club proposed for Oconomowoc's Pabst Farms site

A Walmart supermarket and discount store and Sam's Club store are being proposed for Oconomowoc's Pabst Farms site, where city officials had once hoped to see a regional mall developed.

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Related Topix: Oconomowoc, WI, Retail

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