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2 hrs ago | Star Tribune

Wal-Mart takes aim at Best Buy with ads

Best Buy Co. Inc.'s plans to close 50 big-box stores by the end of the year is creating, at least temporarily, a consumer electronics hole that Wal-Mart is eager to fill.

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Retail, Publishing, Media, Star Tribune, Minnesota

5 hrs ago | 5NEWSonline.com

Local Deli Expands into Walmart Stores

Walmart has found a way to "Keep it Local" by giving area businesses a boost. The Bentonville Butcher and Deli now has expanded by opening two satellite locations inside two of the retail giant's Neighborhood Markets in Rogers and Fayetteville.

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Related Topix: Retail, Rogers, AR

7 hrs ago | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Consumer Business Recap: Wal-Mart's New Strategy, Men in Black

Sony's Men in Black 3 posts an impressive $70 million opening weekend, as the film is the first of a trio upon which the studio has spent as much as $1 billion to develop.

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Related Topix: Retail, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, Media, Sony Music Entertainment, Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Video Games, Software, Music

11 hrs ago | Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

Massachusetts pension fund votes against Wal-Mart directors

Massachusetts' state pension fund said Tuesday it voted against the re-election of seven Wal-Mart Stores Inc directors, the latest public pension fund to protest allegations of a widespread bribery scheme in Mexico and subsequent cover-up. "We need to make it clear that these kinds of corporate abuses are not acceptable, and that serious ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, Retail, Bentonville, AR, US News, Liberal Political News

14 hrs ago | Business Journal

Mass. pension board votes against Wal-Mart directors in bribery scandal

The Massachusetts pension fund board has joined other pension funds in voting against seven of Wal-Mart's 16 directors at the retailer's shareholders meeting amid allegations of a bribery scheme in the company's Mexican operations.

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Related Topix: Retail, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

15 hrs ago | Arkansas News Bureau

Wal-Mart Shareholders' Meetings: An Evolution

From float trips and camp outs along the Big Sugar Creek near Noel, Mo., in the early days of Wal-Mart and ice cream socials at the Walton's Bentonville homestead, the annual shareholder meeting has been an evolution in the making since 1969.

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Related Topix: Retail, Arkansas, Arkansas Government

Mon May 28, 2012

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Costco, Wal-Mart duel in political arena

Executives at Costco Wholesale Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., competitors in the $76 billion U.S. warehouse-club market, have taken their rivalry to a new level: national politics.

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Related Topix: Retail, Big Box Retailers, Costco Wholesale, US News, Tax

Just-Style

INDIA: Wal-Mart to brief employees on anti-corruption compliance - reports

Wal-Mart's Indian division has reportedly appointed a team in India to brief employees on its anti-corruption compliance programme.

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Related Topix: Retail, Transportation, Li and Fung, Logistics

Detroit News

Rules for reloadable prepaid cards coming

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking comment on what should be included in a forthcoming regulation on prepaid debit cards.

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Related Topix: Retail, Maynard, MA

Seeking Alpha

Target And Apple Change The Game On Amazon

Earlier this month, Target confirmed a report by The Verge that it would cease marketing Amazon.com Kindle branded products this spring.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Retail, Target, Apple, Startups, Marketing, Best Buy

Sun May 27, 2012

Pensions & Investments

Plans say no to re-election of directors on Wal-Mart board

CalPERS and the New York City and Connecticut retirement systems pledged to vote their shares in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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Related Topix: Retail, Big Box Retailers, Personal Finance, Retirement, Bentonville, AR

Daily Mail

Walmart heiresses are wealthiest women in the world with worth valued at $58 BILLION

With a net worth of $29.8 billion Walmart heir Alice Walton has topped the list of female billionaires with her sister-in-law, Christy, taking third place.

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Related Topix: Retail, UC Berkeley, Liliane Bettencourt

News Press

Tell Mel: Dogs sick, owners cite snacks

In the days before the big race, and today, on the day of the big race, there will be sadness.

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Related Topix: Retail, Opinion

Pensacola News Journal

Urgent need for O-negative blood donors

Blood is being collected at the following sites today and Monday: * Noon to 4 p.m. today: 1999 E. Nine Mile Road, Pensacola; and 2696 Martin Luther Kind Blvd., Panama City.

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Related Topix: Retail, Pensacola, FL

Sat May 26, 2012

The Motley Fool

What Makes Up a Wal-Mart U.S. Dollar?

LegendaryA fund managerA Peter Lynch once said that you shouldn't invest in any idea you couldn't illustrate with a crayon.

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Related Topix: Retail

Seeking Alpha

Wal-Mart And Death Of The Shareholder Spring: The Stock Story Of The Coming Week

Traders and the media have assumed a path-breaking turn in the ways and mores of the stock market: shareholders are going to rise up and be heard! Some have gone so far as to term this the Shareholder Spring, a reference to last year's Arab Spring, which upended old and deplorable regimes.

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Related Topix: Retail, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

TheStreet.com

Dow Today: Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) Higher

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading down 24.0 points at 12,505 as of Friday, May 25, 2012, 11:35 a.m. ET.

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Related Topix: Retail, Business News

Silicon Alley Insider

The Least Powerful CEOs In America

Closing Bell - May 25, 2012 It is not unusual for large American public companies to be controlled by a founder, a founding family or a corporation that bought out the large majority of shareholders at some time in the past.

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Related Topix: Retail

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Consumer Business Recap: Toyota Needs Emerging Markets, Wal-Mart's Express Update

Toyota's drive to grow its profits by using local production would get a boost, if its plans to sell more than 1 million subcompact cars in emerging markets by 2015 work out.

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Related Topix: Toyota Motor, Automakers, Retail, CVS, Walgreens, CVS Caremark, Rite Aid

Fri May 25, 2012

DVM

Dog's death leads to federal lawsuit over chicken jerky treats from China

A dog owner in the Chicago area has filed a class action lawsuit alleging that his 9-year-old Pomeranian died as a result of eating Nestle Purina's Waggin' Train Yam Good dog treats.

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Related Topix: Retail, Food and Drug Administration

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