Wal-Mart News
RSSWalmart Earnings Increase, Traffic Up
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Walmart ended the year strong with increased sales and traffic at its U.S. stores. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart up at fiscal year’s end
But it says price-cutting a drag on fourth-quarter results
LITTLE ROCK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. closed out its fiscal year ending Jan. 27 with a mostly strong performance, reporting Tuesday an increase in store traffic and in sales at stores open at least a year. Continue reading...
Walmart Reports Strong Earnings
Walmart posted strong sales numbers of $122.3 billion, an increase of 5.8 percent, for the retailer's fiscal 2012 fourth quarter. Sales at Walmart U.S. stores rose 2.4 percent to $72.8 billion, the company announced Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
Chamber watching retailer’s S. Africa case
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Whether Wal-Mart ultimately succeeds in buying a controlling share of a major South African chain could affect whether other Americans come to do business on the continent, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said Thursday. Continue reading...
Liquor sales petition drive in works
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Proponents of allowing package liquor sales in Benton County are preparing a petition drive to put the issue on the ballot. Continue reading...
Greeters see shifting role at Wal-Mart
New duties tough on old, infirm, some workers say
LITTLE ROCK — The role of the Wal-Mart greeter, a fixture at the retailer’s stores for three decades, is, in a word, evolving. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart faces opposition from Georgia musicians on store
ATHENS, Ga. — Musicians connected to R.E.M., the Drive-By Truckers and other Georgia bands have joined forces to perform live and in a video as part of an effort to stop a planned Walmart store from being built in Athens. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart rival hiring new leader
PARIS — The chief executive of Carrefour SA, one of Wal-Mart’s chief global rivals, is stepping down after a string of profit warnings sent the price of the French retail giant’s shares tumbling. Continue reading...
Walmart Names First Female CEO
Brewer Selected For Sam’s Club Top Post
BENTONVILLE — Walmart on Friday named Rosalind Brewer the company’s first female and first African American CEO Continue reading...
Sam’s Club CEO leaving the company
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says Sam’s Club President and CEO Brian Cornell is leaving the company so he can return to the Northeast for family reasons. Continue reading...
Walmex logs 4% December sales gain
Wal-Mart de Mexico SAB said Monday that same-store retail sales in Mexico rose 4 percent in December from a year earlier. Continue reading...
Juices unsafe, lawsuits allege
Arsenic levels in Wal-Mart,Walgreens items in question
TEXARKANA — A Texarkana law firm filed federal and state lawsuits in the past two months alleging fruit juices sold at Wal-Mart and Walgreens stores contain dangerously high levels of arsenic and lead. Continue reading...
SHOPPERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’: Secret Santas pay off layaway debts
SPRINGDALE — Secret layaway Santas have been busy in Northwest Arkansas helping families whose best-laid Christmas shopping plans have veered off course but also warming the hearts of retail workers who’ve heard heartbreaking stories in these tough economic times. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart to open in hard-hit eastern New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it plans to open a supercenter by 2013 in eastern New Orleans, an area outside the central city that has struggled to rebuild since levees and floodwalls failed during Hurricane Katrina and left it flooded. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart pulls formula after baby dies in Missouri
LEBANON, Mo. — Wal-Mart has pulled a batch of powdered infant formula from more than 3,000 of its stores nationwide after a newborn Missouri boy who was fed the formula died from what preliminary tests indicate was a rare bacterial infection, the retailer said. Continue reading...
