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America Online Latin America, Inc. today announced a marketing alliance between its AOL Brazil subsidiary and Wal-Mart Brasil, which operates Wal-Mart, Sam's Club locations and a new local format called Wal-Mart Todo Dia.

Britain's Safeway Plc reported strong second quarter sales on Thursday with like-for-like sales rising 5.4 percent, keeping the country's fourth biggest food retailer in the running among its top competitors.

Business Wire ACNielsen U.S. today announced its first delivery to clients of sales information and insights from its new Wal-Mart Channel Service.

Food distributors are being squeezed by three powerful trends that are pressing the industry to further increase efficiencies in distribution centers (DCs) and try even harder to meet customers' logistics needs, according to the 2001 Food Industry Distribution Center Benchmarking Report, recently released by FDI and FMI.

A panel of judges have upheld class action status for the antitrust case that Wal-Mart and other retailers brought against Visa and MasterCard over debit cards, the Associated Press reports.

IBM on Monday announced that Wal-Mart has selected IBM Enterprise Storage Servers and IBM eServer z900 mainframes as the backbone of Wal-Mart's worldwide data center infrastructure that serves more than 4,000 Wal-Mart stores, Supercenters and SAM's Club facilities and millions of customers worldwide.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced on Tuesday the continuation of its aggressive unit growth for the fiscal year beginning February 1, 2002.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced on Monday that Ronald Chomiuk has joined the company as vice president, pharmacy operations. Chomiuk most recently served as senior vice president of pharmacy for Kmart Corp