Walmart

The end of Bruno's Supermarkets, LLC in its present form could begin as early as this week as a bankruptcy court auction scheduled for Wednesday gets under way, according to a published account. The auction is expected to result in some stores being sold off and others shuttered.

In the wake of reporting a fourth quarter loss due to hefty charges alongside adjusted earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and sent its shares soaring 11 percent, Supervalu’s flagship Chicago-based Jewel-Osco division late last week unveiled a major price-cutting initiative on many items by up to 20 percent.

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said it plans to add solar panels on 10 to 20 additional California facilities within the next 18 months, reported Display and Design Ideas, a sister publication of Progressive Grocer.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. expanded its business with minority- and women-owned companies by over 25 percent in 2008, according to figured released by the company and verified by third-party enterprise supplier management company CVM Solutions.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said this week that Wal-Mart board member and former president and CEO David Glass won’t stand for re-election to the company's board of directors at Wal-Mart's annual shareholders' meeting, scheduled for June 5.

Walmart Stores, Inc. may have cut the amount of shelf space it will devote to Coca-Cola Co.’s Dasani and PepsiCo Inc.’s Aquafina, according to a report by Reuters.

Content created by San Francisco-based Premier Retail Networks, Inc. (PRN) for Bentonville, Ark.-based Walmart and Sam’s Club has received two Digital Signage Awards from POPAI, the Global Association for Marketing at Retail.

Tesco is expected to concede that its first U.S. operation, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets, will not be profitable this year when it announces full company results later this week.