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  • Nugget to City of Vallejo: Ban Wal-Mart or Else!

    WOODLAND, Calif. -- Nugget Markets Inc. told the city of Vallejo that it will drop its plans to open a supermarket there unless the city bans Wal-Mart Supercenters.
  • Wal-Mart Still Retail's Greatest Market Challenge: Survey

    CHICAGO -- Wal-Mart continues to be seen by other retailers as their primary market challenges in the next decade, according to a study conducted by Capgemini U.S. LLC, a global consultant on technology and outsourcing, at the Food Marketing Institute convention.
  • Raley's Rolls Out EDLP Strategy

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With Wal-Mart looking to expand its supercenter concept into northern California, locally based Raley's launched a new everyday low price (EDLP) strategy yesterday on a significant selection of products in its 125 Raley's, Bel Air Markets, and Nob Hill Foods stores.
  • No 2. French Food Retailer Ups Stake in Brazil's CBD

    SAINT-ETIENNE, France -- Casino Guichard Perrachon & Cie SA, the second-biggest supermarket company in France after Carrefour, has increased its stake in Brazil-based Cia. Brasileira de Distribuicao Grupo Pao de Acucar (CBD) to 34. 3 percent from 27.4 percent by paying approximately $587 million to share control of that country's top grocer, according to published reports. Casino's stake will eventually grow to 39 percent of CBD without any further payment by the French retailer.
  • Shuttered Colo. Wal-Mart Store to Be Reborn as "Mini-supercenter"

    LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Wal-Mart has said that it will add 22,000 square feet to a recently closed store here and reopen it as Colorado's first "mini-supercenter," according to the Denver Post.
  • Wal-Mart TV Network to Feature Hispanic Programming from PRN, Telemundo

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The Wal-Mart Television Network's strategic programming platform in 515 targeted Wal-Mart stores with highly concentrated Hispanic populations will receive support from Premier Retail Networks, Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of San Francisco-based PRN Corp., in partnership with U.S. Spanish-language television network Telemundo.
  • Wal-Mart Denies Fired Executive's Whistleblower Claim

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. here said Friday that the former Wal-Mart v.p. who asked to be protected as a whistleblower was actually part of a scheme to defraud the company.
  • Wal-Mart Shuts Unionized Canada Store Early

    TORONTO -- Wal-Mart Canada Corp. says it closed its store in Jonquiere, Que. a week earlier than expected because it ran out of merchandise, not because it was running away from the union.
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