Wal-Mart to Expand Banking Services
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Wal-Mart Stores said today that it would rapidly expand the financial services offered in its stores, extending the reach of its retailing empire into the bank accounts of its shoppers.
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Wal-Mart , the world's largest retailer, said on Monday it acquired a 35 percent stake in Chinese supercenter operator Bounteous Company Ltd., expanding its presence in the world's most populous country.
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Wal-Mart announced Monday that it plans to open or expand up to 45 of its flagship discount stores and up to 250 Supercenters in the United States next year.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- The US retail giant Wal-mart will open its first outlet in Shanghai next year and also move its headquarters there.
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Wal-Mart says 500 new stores and clubs will roll out RFID for case- and pallet-level tracking before the end of the fiscal year.
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China's Communist Party-controlled union is ready to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. set up union branches at its Chinese outlets "as soon as possible," reports and union officials said Thursday.
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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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St. Louis-based Commerce Bank has finished rolling out a system that enables tellers at its 340 branches to quickly access customer records and better sell new products.
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TOKYO Wal-Mart Stores is considering taking a stake in the heavily indebted Japanese retailer Daiei, a move that could greatly expand the presence of the world&#39;s largest retailer in the world&#39;s second-largest retail market.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,  already the nation's top seller of DVDs, said Tuesday that it  has become the first major retailer to offer a digital download  service that will feature movies from all the major studios.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it plans to increase its store space by 8 percent in the fiscal year beginning in February, including 240 to
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the  world's largest retailer, is moving its top lobbyist in  Washington to its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, where  he will become vice president of corporate affairs.
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Wal-Mart Stores , the world's largest retailer, said on Monday it acquired a 35 percent stake in China's Bounteous Company, expanding its presence in the world's most populous country.
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The company said the bank will begin operating during the second half of 2007 and be called Banco Wal-Mart de MÃ©xico Adelante.
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-- Wal-Mart will start selling prepaid Visa debit cards that don't require a credit check or bank account, the company said Wednesday.
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There is no evidence that  a bank proposed by retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc.   would crowd out small community banks, as many such  institutions fear, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Gary  Stern said on Friday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open or expand 40 to 45 discount stores and 240 to 250 Supercenters in the United States next year as the world&#39;s largest retailer continues an aggressive expansion plan.