Wal-Mart Sheds Sandbags
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No big surprise: Wal-Mart just beat its pessimistic forecasts, again.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, on Thursday launched a national advertising  campaign to burnish an image that has been tarnished by claims  about its hiring practices, stance toward labor unions and  actions against smaller competitors.
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Toy retailers across the country have largely pushed sleds and toboggans off their shelves and out of their catalog pages, victims of warmer weather and the changing taste of children.
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Retailers generally had a good showing as the Christmas shopping season began last weekend, but Wal-Mart Stores Inc. dampened the holiday mood with a lump of coal as it reduced its projected sales.
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Business & money: Wal-Mart admits increasing unpopularity as unions organise huge protests outside glitz-fest.
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The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart has said it was pulling out of Germany after eight years and would sell its 85 hypermarkets to the Metro chain.
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Shoppers wait their turn in frigid wind-chill temperatures to enter Wal-Mart in Hamburg, NY, Friday, Nov. 26, 2004. Bargain shoppers woke up before dawn to head for the nation&#39;s malls and stores Friday, the
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Tuesday  reported a 26 percent drop in quarterly profit -- its first  earnings decline in more than 10 years -- because of a charge  for selling its German stores to a rival, but it maintained its  full-year profit forecast.
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By Phillip McGowan, The Baltimore Sun  Mar. 13--Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Wal-Mart Canada will close one of its  two Quebec stores that won union certification last year after  failing to reach a labor agreement, the retailer said on  Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart ousted a recently hired ad executive and dropped the agency she chose to run the companyÂs marketing efforts.
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Here's a sign of how shaky the economy has become: Wal-Mart says its shoppers are redeeming their holiday gift cards for basic items Â pasta sauce, diapers, laundry detergent Â instead of iPods or DVDs.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, lowered its sales forecast for August, citing Hurricane Charley's swipe across Florida and slower than expected back-to-school sales.
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Favored by shoppers but criticised by organized labor, Wal-Mart -- the world's number-one retailer -- has been a discreet participant in the US presidential election campaign.
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NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
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Wal-Mart, the supposed most terrible retailer of all, is doing a very good thing.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, 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.