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IBM Corp. said Monday it signed a five-year agreement with French retailer Carrefour SA to improve and manage its information technology infrastructure for euro180 million, or $251.7 million.

Filed under: Earnings reports , Wal-Mart , Costco Wholesale PriceSmart , an operator of warehouse clubs in Central America and the Caribbean and headquartered in San Diego, announced results for the third quarter on Friday.

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. continues pushing right ahead in the middle of the current recession.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued an Illinois hedge-fund manager over claims he fed more than $2 billion in client assets to an alleged Ponzi scheme run by Minnesota businessman Thomas Petters .

A laborer on Thursday completes finishing touches to the new Bangor Wal-Mart. Located at 900 Stillwater Ave., the store is scheduled to open at 7 a.m. Wednesday, July 15.

Lifting her 2-year-old daughter Shayla into a shopping cart at the Supermercado de Walmart here in Phoenix, Elizabeth Hernandez searches for just the right words to describe her feelings.

Public Mobile Holdings Inc. , a new Canadian wireless carrier, is talking to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Stores like Costco have watched their same-store sales falter in the face of rising unemployment and bad weather.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently told the White House it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance for workers.

Matrics Inc., a Columbia-based company specializing in radio-frequency identification technology, announced yesterday that it has received $20 million in financing from a group of investors led by venture capital giants Carlyle Group, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.

For a glimpse at how the retail landscape has changed since this recession began in December 2007, look no further than the annual list of the nation's largest retailers.

The defunct Sam's Club on U.S. Highway 40 isn't taking deliveries anymore - legally, anyway.

Target Corp. , incorporated in Minnesota in 1902, operates as two reportable segments: retail and credit card.

Unseasonable weather and consumers without the stimulus boost they received last year were expected to have dampened U.S. retail sales in June, analysts said.

Zacks looks for EPS of $3.56 and $3.89 for FY 2009 and 2010 respectively, up from FY 2008's $3.42. The dividend was raised 15% in the June quarter to an annual rate of $1.09 giving WMT shareholders a decent and well covered 2.28% current yield.

While a major change in position, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s endorsement last week of an employer health care coverage mandate is unlikely to have much effect on whether federal lawmakers include a mandate as part of reform legislation, lobbyists and others say.

Whatever the company's motive, retail behemoth Wal-Mart Stores Inc. made health-care reform significantly more likely last week by throwing its weight behind a requirement that all employers provide health coverage.