While the tactic works for discounters like Wal-Mart, it has not motivated department-store shoppers.
Media reports have suggested that Bharti Wal-Mart is seeking clarification on this from the ministry.
Its enterprise ratio is 19, just below the number for the U.S. Wal-Mart Stores.
And to think, some people criticized Wal-Mart Stores for considering a policy of hiring healthy people.
But Wal-Mart was stymied recently when it tried to reduce costs by buying a tiny industrial bank.
"It's like Wal-Mart, " Outlaw said, after getting a shot in her upper left arm.
Wal-Mart security officers were also present overnight, but he said he did not know how many.
Galli plans to pick up shelf space overseas by following Wal-Mart wherever it goes.
And as Wal-Mart continues to expand, other cities may well pass similar big-box laws.
In other words, Wal-Mart has been successfully milking a mature business for higher margins.
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The Dragon Mart is evidence of the symbiotic relationship between state and entrepreneurial capitalism.
Even Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) is paying attention.
Say you retire from Wal-Mart with 30, 000 shares of the company, representing half your net worth.
Home Depot and Wal-Mart are now offering more non-traditional retail services to their customers.
About half of Wal-Mart's grocery shoppers, according to ARG, stick around to buy other items.
An economy meandering its way through tough times has Wal-Mart back on top of retailing.
That should make the smiley bouncing yellow dot that stars in Wal-Mart's television ads even happier.
Toys "R" Us, the inventor of chain-store toy discounting, is being run ragged by Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart uses it to track pallets of diapers and toothpaste in some distribution centers and stores.
And it's these bodies that have the power to keep Wal-Mart from building in the cities.
Wal-Mart and Target both beat the 10-year Treasury rate with their dividend yield.
Hispanics (65%), African Americans (95%), the Creative Class (57%), and Weekly Wal-Mart Shoppers (58%).
Wal-Mart's decision to ban the factory came as a surprise to Hop Lun this week.
He said the factory hadn't produced for Wal-Mart since he joined the factory in 2006.
Perhaps the ideal is to have facilities run by Wal-Mart, but staffed by nuns.
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Wal-Mart has learned the hard way that a first-mover advantage can be important in international retailing.
Despite investing billions of dollars building and buying stores, Wal-Mart still trails Carrefour in Brazil today.
While Wal-Mart is often the target of criticism for their treatment of employees, manufacturing practices, etc.
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Those two things have me thinking I might need to re-evaluate my extreme dislike for Wal-Mart.
Certainly not Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer with 1.6m workers, 1.2m of them in America.
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