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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads "Great for You" to packaging of some of its house-brand foods.

A state appellate court ruling last week in California that dismisses a class action wage-and-hour lawsuit by bank employees is expected to lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of class actions filed in the state and be highly influential nationally as well.

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On Monday, Google hired Simon Prakash, who worked at Apple for over eight years and was most recently the senior director of product integrity.

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Spokesman Glen Wilkins said the retail warehouse is still in the "very early stages," but as soon as the necessary permits are in hand, the company will hit the ground running.

The market already seems to be in Hershey's favor, as the company's shares have appreciated nearly 20% over the past year.

Until the internet boom, retailing was an asset intensive business relying upon bricks-and-mortar stores.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is proposing to build its third Walmart in Sioux Falls at the northeast corner of 69th Street and Cliff Avenue, according to a letter sent to neighborhood residents.

The JBG Cos. has filed its large-tract review application for the company's Wal-Mart-anchored development in the District's Fort Totten area.

The Arkansas Business Hall of Fame tonight will induct the publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a former president of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the owner of a timber business and an advertising executive at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

The Canadian retail space has attracted much attention from the U.S.' top retailers, with both Wal-Mart and Target wanting to increase their market share.

Amazon savaged Barnes and Noble and Best Buy in much the same way Wal-Mart destroyed mom and pop retail in the 1980s and 1990s: It used disruptive technology to change how we shop.

The world's largest retailer said it is reducing the fat, sugar and sodium in many of its private-label foods and will more aggressively market other healthy grocery items April onwards.

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Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton fought for years to get people greeters positioned at the front of each entrance of his retail stores, but now customers have to say a slow and sure goodbye to the 32-year run of those greeters .

Mexico's top retailer, Wal-Mart de Mexico, on Wednesday said sales at its Mexico stores open at least a year rose 4.7 percent in January from the same month last year.

A year after promising to do so, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has joined the growing number of retailers who are pointing their customers to more healthy eating options by adding nutrition rating systems to food labels.

Reuters reported that, the Canadian unit of Wal-Mart will invest $750 million in 73 projects in the next 12 months, as it moves to stay ahead of Target and other competitors.Wal-Mart Canada operates 333 stores in the country, and plans to an additional 4.6 million square feet of retail space to its operations in the next year.Wal-Mart Stores has ... (more)

The U.S. Labor Department has recommended fining Wal-Mart Stores Inc. $365,500 after inspectors say they found 24 workplace safety violations at an upstate New York store.