Wal-Mart Aims To Enlist Suppliers In Green Mission
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Wal-Mart announced yesterday that it will begin asking its suppliers to measure their carbon footprint and find ways to reduce it, part of an effort by the world's largest retailer to transform itself into a more environmentally friendly company.
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The massive retailer has reportedly renewed efforts to build its presence there.
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Wal-Mart Chief Executive Lee Scott laid out ambitious environmental goals in late 2005 as the world's largest retailer sought to burnish its reputation against mounting criticism.
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By Phillip McGowan, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 13--Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Former Vice President Al Gore will take his campaign against global warming to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. next week, speaking at Wal-Mart headquarters to executives seeking to make the world&#039;s largest retailer more environmentally friendly, a company spokesman said Friday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, plans to set up a venture with Indian billionaire Sunil Mittal, gaining access to the second-most populous nation as the government considers tempering restrictions on overseas ownership.
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Another small, eco-friendly business is scooped up by a corporation.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc is willing to pay more for products that last longer and hurt the environment less, the company's director of sustainability said on Thursday, adding it might not necessarily have to raise retail prices as a result.
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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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Call it Phase 3 of the greening of corporate America. Companies are looking at their supply chain as the next frontier for combating climate change.
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Sony Corp. is in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores and Costco Wholesale Corp. in the United States, in an effort to boost sales by shipping to discount chains with which it previously did little business.
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Some environmentalists say that Home Depot is being too inclusive with its green products, engaging in its own kind of overstated marketing.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Tuesday that it is offering free shipping on thousands of items  purchased on its Web site for pick-up in more than 750 of its  U.S. stores.
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Wal-Mart officials said yesterday they were asking toy suppliers to submit recent safety documentation or re-test their products in response to the wave of recalled merchandise from China that has cast a shadow over the upcoming holiday shopping season.
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The world&#39;s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said it planned at least 10 new stores in China next year, joining other foreign retail giants in taking advantage of new rules letting them move into smaller cities.
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'Scorecard' to be introduced in 2008 assesses the environmental friendliness of gadgets sold in Wal-Mart stores.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, fresh   from cutting the prices on generic prescription drugs, is now   taking on the packaging industry.