Tag: Walmart
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Wal-Mart Thinks It Can Fix India’s Insanely Bureaucratic Food Supply System
Business Insider: Wal-Mart Thinks It Can Fix India's Insanely Bureaucratic Food Supply System Last week I linked an article reporting that rich countries are trashing up to half of all food. Our distribution channels are good, but we tend to waste a lot of food through our consumption habits. Emerging nations are wasting food too…
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Three Cheers for the Cheapeners and Cost-Cutters
Wall Street Journal: Three Cheers for the Cheapeners and Cost-Cutters … A feature of innovation is that the greatest impact of a new idea comes not when the light bulb goes on over the geek's head, but when the resulting technology eventually becomes cheap enough for many people to use—perhaps decades later. The first plane…
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Walmart Is Crushing Its Ambitious Global-Responsibility Goals
Fast Company: Walmart Is Crushing Its Ambitious Global-Responsibility Goals Walmart, that bastion of cheap food, clothing, and everything in between, has corporate-responsibility goals that put every other big box retailer to shame. When Walmart asks its 60,000 suppliers to shape up, the world listens; a demanding packaging goal will have companies the world over scrambling…
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Urban Economic Development and Walmart
Walmart Community produced the video, so you are hardly getting an objective presentation. However, this story reminds me of an urban redevelopment project I learned about firsthand while studying at Eastern University in the '80s. Deliverance Evangelistic Center, a prominent African-American Church in North Philadelphia, an area devoid of a full-service supermarket, had acquired the…
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Wal Mart: Retailing At Technological Inflection Point
Barrons: Davos: Wal Mart: Retailing At Technological Inflection Point … “More and more the customer is shopping with a cell phone to check prices,” for example, he said. The use of “site to store,” is growing, too. Site to store refers to customers who buy on line and then come to the store to pick…
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Dr. Wal-Mart
The Columbus Dispatch: Dr. Wal-Mart Retail giant a health-care force with $4 prescriptions, glasses, in-store clinics. When Wal-Mart started selling generic medications for $4 for a month's supply, critics said it was just a way to lure more customers. Six years later, that move has changed the way doctors prescribe medications and made the big-box…
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Why Wal-Mart’s sales should have everyone worried
CNN: Why Wal-Mart's sales should have everyone worried (Fortune) — It certainly looks like happy days are here again. Many of the nation's biggest retailers, including Saks, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, and Target have released cheery sales reports. April's jobs reports showing a slight increase in the workweek and pay for workers, and more hiring across…
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Tough Times Boost Wal-Mart’s Allure
Wall Street Journal: Tough Times Boost Wal-Mart's Allure CHICAGO—Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has won the support of dozens of church ministers in its long-running battle to expand in Chicago, a sign of how the recession has softened skepticism of the retailer in a community desperate for jobs. The ministers, most of them African-Americans together representing thousands…
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Walmart to Launch Straight Talk Exclusively, Nationwide
Yahoo Finance: Walmart to Launch Straight Talk Exclusively, Nationwide BENTONVILLE, Ark., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Dedicated to providing families affordable wireless solutions, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT – News) announces today it will launch Straight Talk, a new solution in no-contract cellular, exclusively at more than 3,200 Walmart stores nationwide starting October 18, 2009. Straight…