Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) : This Arkansas-based retail giant has some 10, 000 stores across 28 countries.
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But last year Walmart.com, a division of Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), started a similar service.
And to think, some people criticized Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) for considering a policy of hiring healthy people.
Earlier this year, for example, Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) began collecting sales taxes on its sales at Walmart.com.
Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), the world's largest traditional retailer, runs Walmart.com as a separate subsidiary that collects sales taxes in only nine states.
Christy Walton, the richest of the new billionaires in 2006, took on her fortune from her husband John, who died last June and was himself a Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) heir.
In May, Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) chose to enter into a solar pilot project through a PPA model with SunEdison at four of its stores in California and four in Hawaii.
Companies like Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) and Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), which offer one-stop shopping and deep discounts, have simply hammered RadioShack's traditional model.
Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) has been accused of everything from not supplying workers with enough benefits and health insurance to opportunistic lawyers trying to strike it rich by bringing on endless lawsuits.
Ironically, Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), one of Tesco's main U.K. adversaries because of its Asda subsidiary, already has 20 stores in Las Vegas: nine Neighborhood Market Stores, three regular stores and eight Superstores.
He also succeeded in striking key distribution deals with Radio Shack (nyse: RSH - news - people ) and Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), two retailers that were already working with DirecTV.
Merrill Lynch is already predicting a lackluster season for big-box discounters Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), whose sheer size makes it difficult to drive year-over-year sales.
Visa and MasterCard now face a massive class action, led by Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), that accuses them of using their clout in the credit card market to force retailers to accept their debit cards, which carry higher processing costs.
That's probably why shares of Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), Chevron (nyse: CVX - news - people ) and Halliburton Holding (nyse: HAL - news - people ) were all trading higher.
An analysis comparing Wal-Mart Stores' (nyse: WMT - news - people ) same-store sales growth to consumer spending data dating back to January 2004, compiled by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, actually shows a negative correlation between the two.
Via Trading also takes on Wal-Mart Stores ' (nyse: WMT - news - people ) West Coast excess through that company's outsourcing partner, Jacobs Trading, which uses prison labor to scrape labels off products to ready them for discounted resale.
And if you measure by growth rate, Amazon (AMZN) is shredding Wal-Mart Stores (WMT).
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) entered China in 1996 and has billions of sales there.
Wal-Mart Stores ( WMT) has been cutting staff since the recession and pallets of merchandise are piling up in its stockrooms as shelves go unfilled.
Berkshire also has stock investments in a myriad of major companies, including American Express (AXP), Coca-Cola (KO), Conoco-Philips (COP), Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), and Wells Fargo (WFC).
In this latest stretch, 27 of the 30 stocks closed higher than a week ago with only Merck ( MRK), Home Depot ( HD) and Wal-Mart Stores ( WMT) showing declines.
For example, imagine all the point of sale terminals at all the 8, 500 Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) around the world as they process customers who are waiting to pay for their goods.
As shares of Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) make their second significant pullback since rallying into bull market territory in the first half of October, is the time for buying the dip at hand?
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Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) knows where the action is.
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But this adds a new challenge: Now, in addition to trying to get space in Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people )'s best stores, RediClinic must pick markets that aren't dominated by HMOs that don't cover retail health care.
You start with Wal-Mart (49, WMT) and Federated Department Stores (56, FD), and work your way down to Costco (81, COST) and Tiffany (97, TIF).
At the top of the list is Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ( WMT) as it is just 10.9% above its monthly starc- band.
Wal-Mart ( WMT - news - people ) testing the device on top of one of its stores within five months of the design's conception.
The company already puts RFID chips in printers and computers it delivers to Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and other retailers to help track inventory.
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