All Walmart articles – Page 37
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AnalysisHow retailers are minimising fuel costs
Volatile fuel costs are having a major impact on the retail supply chain. Alison Clements discovers how retailers are attempting to minimise costs without jeopardising service
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OpinionA new age of reason
Visits in the past two weeks to the US and Australia have unearthed encouraging signs to counter the fears of a recessionary pandemic that abounded 12 months ago.
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D&S results
Wal-Mart’s Chilean subsidiary, D&S, reported second-quarter sales up 8.9% on the same quarter of 2008, with comparable sales also up, by 8.2%. Profit dropped 18.9% to CLP23.51bn (£26.2m).The retailer, which operates under a number of different formats such as hypermarket Hiper de Lider, said that most of the drop was ...
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OpinionEmbracing digital media could give Asda an edge
Asda will next week steam ahead of the rest of the big four grocers in the social networking arena. And the bold move may well help it give the grocer an edge.
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NewsAsda builds social site to push transparency
Asda is to launch a social networking website next week as part of its plan to become a more transparent business.
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NewsAndy Bond warns of long road to recovery
Despite a better than expected trading outlook for the rest of this year, the road to recovery for UK retailers will be long and hard, Asda chief executive Andy Bond has suggested.
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OpinionDigital screens - retail has seen it all before
Asda’s newly opened future store in Keighley, Bradford, is trialling a digital signage system from Amscreen that has been designed to influence purchase decisions at the point of sale.In Amscreen’s promotion of the deal, which includes a video of the system it’s posted on its website, it describes the system ...
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Wal-Mart develops worldwide sustainable product index for suppliers
Wal-Mart is developing a worldwide sustainable product index for suppliers in an attempt to establish a single source of data for evaluating the sustainability of products.The initiative will run in three phases: surveying its more than 100,000 suppliers; helping create a consortium of universities that will collaborate with suppliers, retailers ...
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PetSmart considers expanding its services
PetSmart, America’s largest pet store chain, is considering an expansion into in-home services, including dog walking and setting up home aquariums, in an effort to distinguish itself from retailers such as Wal-Mart.PetSmart is in the early stages of developing ways to provide the services, according to the retailer’s new chief ...
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Wal-Mart customers to vote on what products are stocked
Wal-Mart customers will be able to vote on what products the retail giant stocks as part of a new initiative due to launch in the autumn.Shoppers will be able to vote on non-perishables in an effort to empower customers and ensure it stocks the right products. The customers to vote ...
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NewsAsda trials system to hone merchandising
Asda has successfully completed testing and user acceptance of a store and merchandise planning system from Galleria Retail Technology Solutions.
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OpinionPrice-conscious retail with a conscience
Conspicuous consumption is giving way to conscientious consumption. This is not just a sign of recessionary times but the dawning of an era, says Michael Poynor
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Most retailers expanding abroad entering Mid East markets
Saudi Arabia attracted the most new retailers in the past year, with 37 opening their doors there, a CB Richard Ellis report found.The study showed that most retailers expanding abroad were entering Middle Eastern markets; Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates were also in the top five.Separately, AT Kearney’s annual ...
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Possible expansion into Russia for Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart International chief Doug McMillon has said the retailer is pursuing a variety of options to enter Russia.A delegation from Russia attended the retailer’s associates’ meeting last week and McMillon said Wal-Mart could proceed by acquisition or by opening its own stores, but no time frame has been set. “We ...
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AnalysisNew Wal-Mart chief Mike Duke: ‘This is our time’
Changing consumer habits create opportunities, new Wal-Mart chief Mike Duke believes – but the retailer can’t afford to be complacent. George MacDonald reports from the US
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Wal-Mart will not “accelerate” Marketside openings
Wal-Mart will not “accelerate” openings of Marketside, the store format developed in response to Tesco’s Fresh & Easy US chain.Wal-Mart Stores vice-chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright said: “The test we’ve had in Phoenix, we’re pleased with. Given the current economic conditions we are not accelerating the effort until we have better data ...
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NewsAsda supremo to spearhead Wal-Mart academy for ‘generation of marketers’
Wal-Mart has set up an international academy of marketing excellence based at Asda and headed by Asda director and Wal-Mart chief international marketing officer Rick Bendel.
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NewsWal-Mart designates Asda international centre of marketing excellence
Wal-Mart has designated Asda its international centre of marketing excellence. The UK retailer will act as a global marketing academy for Wal-Mart under the leadership of Rick Bendel.
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AnalysisThe retail awards no one wants to win
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but even the best retailers get it wrong sometimes. Charlotte Hardie looks back at some of retail’s biggest strategic blunders and asks what we can learn from them
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Target shareholders reject alternative director list
Shareholders in general merchandise retail powerhouse Target last week rejected an alternative list of directors put up by activist shareholder William Ackman.In a heated battle, Ackman, the head of Pershing Square Capital Management, sought to have his own roster of directors, including himself, replace the existing board to better compete ...