Wal-Mart prepares small U.S. stores to fend off Tesco
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  is actively working to open its first small-scale grocery stores in Arizona, according to city planning officials, as the world's largest retailer looks to fend off competition from British supermarket rival Tesco .
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Wal-Mart Stores will experience the most negative impact from a plan for Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s to shift the composition of key index benchmarks over a phased, year-long transition, analysts said Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. isn&#39;t just working to woo Japanese shoppers -- it&#39;s doing a little shopping of its own in the No. 2 economy.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , seeking to counter opposition to its expansion plans, has selected nine more high-unemployment zones where it plans to open stores in the next two years.
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Another $400, 2-lb. Linux-based mini-laptop will arrive in U.S. Wal-Mart stores by the end of this month.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc cut its capital expenditure forecast on Tuesday and scaled back on planned supercenters as the world's largest retailer grapples with slowing sales in a saturated U.S. market.
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Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, plans to open 50 stores in the next year in the Southwest.
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NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, plans to expand its financial-service centers more than fourfold to 1,000 stores by 2009 after abandoning an attempt to start a bank.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  is actively  working to open its first small-scale grocery stores in  Arizona, according to city planning officials, as the world's  largest retailer looks to fend off competition from British  supermarket rival Tesco .
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Most small retailers, which cannot afford either price cuts or expensive advertising, are doing something else this holiday season: making a virtue of their size.
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In a global economy where consumers  are holding back, Britain's biggest food retailer Tesco   is gearing up for increased competition with its U.S.  rivals, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
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Asda, the British supermarket unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc , said on Wednesday it would create 8,000 jobs in the UK this year and build a minimum of 18 new stores.
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Tesco has pledged to turn up the heat on rivals with the &quot;Wal-Martisation&quot; of its non-food and non-clothing lines as the supermarket group yesterday delivered a set of half-year results that beat most expectations.
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U.S. retailers are expected to post modest November sales this week, with No. 1 retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. already cutting its holiday outlook on high oil prices and warmer weather.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  is set to shake up its sluggish apparel unit by shutting two divisions at its Arkansas headquarters, eliminating dozens of positions and moving dozens more to New York, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the No. 1 U.S. retailer, on Tuesday signaled it will cut prices in the weeks before Christmas after a strategy against deep discounts backfired on the first weekend of the holiday shopping season.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, plans to open as many as 15 new stores in China next year, competing for a foothold with Carrefour SA and Metro Group as the government lifts curbs on foreign retailers.