Wal-Mart to curtail health care options: WSJ
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will next year   curtail the options that it offers newly hired workers for   health-care coverage, promoting a low-premium, high-deductible   plan, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can no longer remain sheltered in its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters while potentially costly lawsuits pile up, Chief Executive Officer Lee Scott said on Wednesday.
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Analysts upgraded their ratings on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s  stock, citing the world's largest retailer's plans to curb its U.S. store growth and a $15 billion share buyback announcement.
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Shares in Wal-Mart fell more than three per cent in New York on Monday, after the giant discount retailer cut its forecast for November same-store sales
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NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the largest private employer in the United States, is expanding the number of healthcare plans it offers employees and giving discounts on some types of coverage in an effort to blunt criticism about benefits.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's biggest retailer, suffered another blow to its star status on Wednesday when a leading U.S. investment bank downgraded the company's stock.
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the prices of almost 300 generic prescription drugs, offering a big lure for bargain-seeking customers and presenting a challenge to competing pharmacy chains and makers of generic drugs.
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CheckUps, a start-up operator of walk-in medical clinics, has shut down 23 of the clinics operating in Wal-Mart stores in Florida and three other Southern states.
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NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart , the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the prices of almost 300 generic prescription drugs, offering a big lure for bargain-seeking customers and presenting a challenge to competing pharmacy chains and makers of generic drugs.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it is expanding the number of health care plans it will offer its 1.3 million U.S. employees, including adding health care credits and $4 monthly prescriptions for any of 2,400 generic drugs.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will on Thursday announce an upgrade to its walk-in medical clinic business with plans for several hundred new clinics, according to a report in the New York Times.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  is  considering acquisitions in its home market as it seeks to open  smaller stores and limit its reliance on giant supercenters for  growth, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Monday it will drop prices this week on more than 16,000  products across its stores as the world&#39;s largest retailer  tries to reinvigorate sales for the back-to-school shopping  season.
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American manufacturers are losing their ability to compete in the global marketplace in large measure because of the crushing burden of health care costs, General Motors Corp. chairman and chief executive G. Richard Wagoner Jr. said yesterday as he called on corporate and government leaders to find "some serious medicine" for the nation's ailing health system.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and a labor union with which the retailer often clashes joined forces on Wednesday to call for universal health care coverage for all Americans by 2012, but offered no specific proposals.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Monday it will drop prices this week on more than 16,000 products across its stores as the world's largest retailer tries to reinvigorate sales for the back-to-school shopping season.
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The move would be the first time Wal-Mart has used its influence to lower the cost of health care for its customers.