Mideast Climate Change
The NY Times propagandist at work again !!
"The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy at a time when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance."
Bush was somewhere at the table with Sharon, Abbas, Mubarak and Abdullah?
Bush was somewhere at the table when the UN declared Shaba Farms belongs to Syria?
Bush was somewhere in Lebanon to prevent the assassination of Rafik Hariri? Where was Bush when Hariri resigned over unfair government practices?
Bush was with Schroder when he met with Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia?
He was there when evoys returned to Israel?
He was there to stop the bombings in Tel Aviv?
No.
He was wanting Israel as a launching pad to war with attacks into Sytria and Iran.
Who are you all kidding?
There is a balance of power in the Middle East with the entrance of Russia and there is finally openness in regard to coming to terms with militants like Hezbollah and a new found commitment by Abbas.
This MIDDLE EAST Peace is indeed a wonderful event but yesterday as the King of Jordan was making plans to return to Israel, Bush's military witnessed the worst attack of rebels in Iraq since the illegal invasion began.
The New York Times Editorial Board will do anything and say anything at the least little glimmer of potential 'of kissing up to the boss' just to be able to say it to win some loyalty for their besieged newspaper.
Do you honestly believe Bush sees this as something he will crown you with some inkling of favor?
No. It's a 'weakness' that you are finally showing your true nature to succumb to the 'Power of a Crony' just like everyone else.
The facts are clear The Middle East has taken on the challenge of reining in their militants and finding there own peace. It's working and it's falling into line quickly because it was there the entire time. THE POTENTIAL WAS ALWAYS THERE !!!!
When Bush would paint the Middle East as evil and synister the facts of the matter is the countries and their leaders 'had it in them the entire' time.
IF there is anyone in this situation MOST responsible for the Domino Effect of the Middle East Peace is is Prime Minister Sharon and especially President Abbas. They started the ball rolling and it hasn't stopped.
I am grateful to all the leaders in the Middle East that has seized the moment and declared their own MID-EAST PEACE.
I congratulate them.
Shalom.
The New York Times needs to fight their own liberation in the courts and in the legislature, not on editorial boards that would reward a man incapable of peace, namely George Walker Bush.
The Climate Change in the Middle East is real and it is good, but, the one that kills still alludes the governments of Earth from stopping and reversing it. If the Middle East can achieve it's own peace. It can inspire the rest of the world to save itself from Global Warming.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Truth regarding Wal-Mart. They hate employees. They hate their unions. Part 1 of 5 today
The World According to Wal-Mart
WAL-MART JANITORS FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR UNPAID OT AND SUBMINIMUM WAGES.....CASE COULD INCLUDE WORKERS FROM AS FAR AWAY AS MONGOLIA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC....
http://lists.iww.org/pipermail/iww-news/2004-December/007514.html
Sisters May Have Bilked Wal-Mart With Fake Bar Codes
(Nashville, Tenn. -AP, December 31, 2004) — Two sisters and their husbands in Tennessee may have printed up fake bar codes that tricked Wal-Mart scanners in 19 states out of $1.5 million over the past decade.
Authorities say they printed up fake UPC bar codes for high-priced items at cheaper prices.
The total is still adding up for Wal-Mart and two other retail chains allegedly hit by the two couples along with 30 accomplices. More arrests are expected.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/features/strangenews/apress_123104_walmartscam_strangenews.html
U.S. Stocks Rise on Higher Consumer Confidence; Wal-Mart Gains
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose after a measure of consumer confidence climbed to the highest since July, boosting retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and reviving a rally that's lifted benchmark indexes to three-year highs.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aO_R810yVEsA&refer=home
Wal-Mart says on track with tracking tag rollout
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Wal-Mart Stores, the world's biggest retailer, on Monday said it was on target to expand its use of electronic inventory tracking tags next month, which is expected to pave the way for others to follow.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/parts/2004-12-28-walmart-rfid_x.htm
Wal-Mart gets key approval
By Brandon Keat
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
A developer hoping to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the former Dixmont State Hospital site won approval Monday of a key environmental permit from the state.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_287476.html
WTOC This Year--Wal-Mart, Target, and the Truman Parkway
This year, a couple of stores were in the headlines a lot. Retail giants Target and Wal-Mart expanded, and so did the Truman Parkway. Phase three was completed late this year.
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2741323&nav=0qq6UcUu
Thank you for calling your 'Arkansaw' City Wal-Mart
Retailer word gaffe offends local residents
By FOSS FARRAR
Traveler Staff Writer
A lot of riled-up Wal-Mart customers in Arkansas City want to know why the local store doesn't seem to know how to pronounce the name of the town.
http://www.arkcity.net/stories/122804/com_0002.shtml
Wal-Mart owns its sign, but not land
ANDREW TUTINO
Journal Staff
VanCort
ITHACA -- In the 1930s, Tompkins County was deeded a small, quarter-acre parcel of land along Elmira Road that was to be used for highway development. Long forgotten and thought to have been transferred to the state, the county owned the land without anyone knowing it.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041228/localnews/1794737.html
Wal-Mart, Kmart Holiday Sales Results Boost Shares (Update1)
Listen
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said a surge in after-Christmas shopping boosted December same-store sales for a gain of about 3 percent, at the high end of its forecast. Kmart Holding Corp. said profit rose 10 percent during the holiday season after it controlled inventory to avoid deep discounts.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aM8QZzopcE5o&refer=news_index
Wal-Mart ups Dec. comp. sales view
By Susan Lerner, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:05 PM ET Jan. 3, 2005
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Wal-Mart shares climbed Monday after the retailing giant provided an outlook for December same-store sales that was above the target provided in its previous forecast.
Wal-Mart shares closed up 53 cents, or 1 percent, at $53.35....
Pasted from <http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash&siteid=google&guid=%7BC1EA1075%2D319C%2D47EE%2D968B%2D69E2D4433041%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7BC1EA1075%2D319C%2D47EE%2D968B%2D69E2D4433041%7D%26siteid%3Dgoogle%26dist%3Dgoogle%2C+%26archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26minisite%3D>
Dow Average Advances as Oil Drops, Wal-Mart Gains; Exxon Falls
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said December sales were at the top of its forecast, and oil prices dropped.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=az26.31Wd9lI&refer=us
Wal-Mart Shares Climb on Sales Uptick
January 4, 2005 6:28PM
In its weekly sales update, Wal-Mart forecast a rise of 3 percent in same-store sales for December. Based on the gain, Oppenheimer analyst Bernard Sosnick believes Wal-Mart should be able to meet its outlook for fourth quarter earnings of 71-73 cents a share.
http://www.cio-today.com/ciobusbrf/story.xhtml?story_title=Wal-Mart-Shares-Climb-on-Sales-Uptick&story_id=29475&category=ciobusbrf
Sandy Residents Want Wal-Mart Issue on Ballots
Jan. 4, 2005
John Daley Reporting
It's crunch time for Sandy citizens looking to stop a pair of big box retailers from building at the site of the city's last large parcel of open space. They're trying to put the issue on the ballot.
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=142496
2004 in review: Wal-Mart wants in
By ROY GRABER
(Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of four stories that review the news of 2004.)
Wal-Mart made its plans to build a Supercenter south of Winfield known when representatives of the company requested that a 23-acre tract of land be annexed into the city.
City and county officials eventually approved the annexation, but plenty of people were less than enthusiastic about the retailer’s plans. Leading the opposition were residents of the area, afraid to lose the quality of life offered by rural living.
http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w050108/Tues3.html
Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt
Wal-Mart, once a believer in buying American, extracts ever lower prices from 10,000 suppliers worldwide. Workers struggle to keep pace.
By Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall, Times Staff Writers
SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS — When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-fi-walmart24nov2403,1,7288517.story
Audit Stance Generates Controver
By Evelyn Iritani and Nancy Cleeland, Times Staff Writers
Safe working conditions. Reasonable hours. No child labor.
These are among the rules that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers imposed on their foreign contractors after a series of scandals in the 1990s. Yet just how well Wal-Mart's contractors abide by its standards is something of a mystery — and a source of controversy.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nucodenov2403,1,765709.story
Grocery Unions Battle to Stop Invasion of the Giant Stores
Wal-Mart plans to open 40 of its nonunion Supercenters in California. Labor is fighting the expected onslaught, but the big retailer rarely concedes defeat.y Nancy Cleeland and Abigail Goldman, Times Staff Writers
Inglewood seemed to offer the perfect home for a new Wal-Mart Supercenter, with low-income residents hungry for bargains and a mayor craving the sales-tax revenue that flows from big-box stores.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart25nov2503,1,2907749.story
4 Tennesseans charged in Wal-Mart scam
By Colin Fly
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE - In a town so small it doesn't even have a Wal-Mart, two Tennessee couples have been arrested in a scheme that used forged bar codes to defraud the retail giant of $1.5 million in 19 states over the past decade.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10542255.htm
Lafayette OKs efforts to entice Wal-Mart
Council approves incentive package; neighbors object
By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
January 1, 2005
LAFAYETTE - The City Council has approved an economic incentive package that it hopes will persuade Wal-Mart to construct a super center on 27 acres on the west side of U.S. 287.
The council agreed late Thursday to enter into negotiations with the company that would offer the world's largest retailer $2.3 million in incentives.
Pasted from <http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3438313,00.html
Sarasota County Commission's roadblocks stop Wal-Mart in its tracks
Sarasota County's controversial Wal-Mart denial is an illustration of the vagaries of handling growth and the sometimes arbitrary nature of decision-making on zoning issues.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041231/COLUMNIST55/412310463
Wal-Mart to become AmCan sign of the times?
Sunday, January 2, 2005
By DAVID RYAN
Register Staff Writer
The fast-growing city of American Canyon showed its divisions with a debate that ignited the community, cast a long shadow over the city council race and has now become a court battle. The question of whether a 176,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter would buoy or sink the city's economy was the biggest story in Napa County commerce in 2004, and it remains unresolved.
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=592AA7BF-6381-4E34-89CA-6248AF470091
Wal-Mart opens store here
Friday, January 2, 2005
By Jessi De La Cruz
Staff Writer
The rolled-back prices, fears of destroying independent stores and potential for traffic snarls on the city's west side hit Jackson on July 21.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1104663954150150.xml
Wal-Mart, Home Depot spark concerns among Juneau residents
Assembly to hold public hearing about Home Depot on Jan. 10
By TONY CARROLL
JUNEAU EMPIRE
Residents seem to agree that the cost of living in Juneau is high. But the prospect of international retailers coming to town with the promise of low prices has sparked debate.
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010205/loc_20050102006.shtml
Wal-Mart's women -- employees and customers -- in unhealthy relationship
By LIZA FEATHERSTONE
GUEST COLUMNIST
On the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, Wal-Mart's many progressive critics -- not to mention its business competitors -- finally enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude when the retailer had to admit to "disappointing" sales. The problem was quickly revealed: Wal-Mart hadn't been discounting aggressively enough. Without low prices, Wal-Mart just isn't Wal-Mart.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/205768_focus02.html
$1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores
Posted by samzenpus on Fri Dec 31, '04 02:59 AM
from the your-total-is-one-dollar dept.
nomrniceguy writes "Two couples have been charged in a price-switching scheme that allegedly defrauded Wal-Mart stores in 19 states of $1.5 million over the last decade. Authorities said the scheme involved using a home computer to produce UPC bar codes for cheaper products and slipping them over the real codes on high-priced items. The suspects then allegedly sold the merchandise, or returned it for refunds or store gift cards that also were sold."
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/0321231&from=rs
Colorado Wal-Mart workers reject union
By JON SARCHE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A pedestrian walks past a Wal-Mart sign in Loveland, Colo., Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. There was a vote to unionize at the Loveland location. Workers at the Tire & Lube Express voted 17-1 against union representation Friday, rejecting efforts to establish what would have been the first union inside any Wal-Mart store in the United States. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
LOVELAND, Colo. -- Workers at a Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express voted 17-1 against union representation Friday, rejecting efforts to establish what would have been the second union inside any Wal-Mart store in the United States.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/apbiz_story.asp?category=1310&slug=Wal%20Mart%20Union&searchdiff=3&searchpagefrom=1
AFL-CIO chief details agenda for meeting
By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LAS VEGAS -- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said he'll study slashing member contributions by as much as half so that local unions would have more money to boost recruitment and reverse years of shrinking membership.
Pasted from <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/apbiz_story.asp?category=1310&slug=Labor%20Meeting%20Vegas&searchdiff=3&searchpagefrom=1>
Wal-Mart to pay $14.5M over gun violations
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
By JIM WASSERMAN. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $14.5 million in fines and other costs to settle a ...
Wal-Mart employees to exchange vows at work
Associated Press
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. - Paula Alvarez and Dale Thompson knew their friends and fellow employees at Wal-Mart might not be able to attend their wedding because of work.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10572702.htm
Bar-Code Scam at Wal-Mart: A Matter of Priorities
By
Evan Schuman
January 5, 2005
Opinion: The fact that shoplifters nabbed $1.5 million across 19 states is not a technology, people or training problem. Rather, it shows that management needs to re-evaluate its obsession with keeping the line moving.
The most well-planned and meticulously detailed crimes are often foiled by the commonplace. The thieves might map out their route precisely, coordinating it based on when various employees come and go. But security guard No. 9 gets a flat tire that morning, shows up 35 minutes late and ruins everything.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1748547,00.asp
City follows proper path on Wal-Mart rezoning
By TONY MESSENGER
Published Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Well, Toto, at least we’re not in Kansas anymore.
That’s the path some Columbia residents wanted to send our city down with their anti-Wal-Mart protests that reached a fevered pitch early this week.
Columbia city council members - most of them, anyway - resisted drinking the Kool-Aid and instead did the only thing they could do Monday night. They passed a rezoning request that guarantees a Wal-Mart will be built at the corner of Broadway and Fairview Road but also ensures that important improvements to the site and surrounding roads will come with it.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050105Feat001.asp
Wal-Mart, U.S. Retailers Post 2.7% Dec. Sales Gain (Update7)
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Saks Inc. posted the second-biggest December sales gain in five years after discounts sparked a late surge in holiday shopping.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aRX91kmWk0Q8&refer=us
continued...
This is going to take a while to put up.
WAL-MART JANITORS FILE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR UNPAID OT AND SUBMINIMUM WAGES.....CASE COULD INCLUDE WORKERS FROM AS FAR AWAY AS MONGOLIA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC....
http://lists.iww.org/pipermail/iww-news/2004-December/007514.html
Sisters May Have Bilked Wal-Mart With Fake Bar Codes
(Nashville, Tenn. -AP, December 31, 2004) — Two sisters and their husbands in Tennessee may have printed up fake bar codes that tricked Wal-Mart scanners in 19 states out of $1.5 million over the past decade.
Authorities say they printed up fake UPC bar codes for high-priced items at cheaper prices.
The total is still adding up for Wal-Mart and two other retail chains allegedly hit by the two couples along with 30 accomplices. More arrests are expected.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/features/strangenews/apress_123104_walmartscam_strangenews.html
U.S. Stocks Rise on Higher Consumer Confidence; Wal-Mart Gains
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose after a measure of consumer confidence climbed to the highest since July, boosting retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and reviving a rally that's lifted benchmark indexes to three-year highs.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aO_R810yVEsA&refer=home
Wal-Mart says on track with tracking tag rollout
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Wal-Mart Stores, the world's biggest retailer, on Monday said it was on target to expand its use of electronic inventory tracking tags next month, which is expected to pave the way for others to follow.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/parts/2004-12-28-walmart-rfid_x.htm
Wal-Mart gets key approval
By Brandon Keat
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
A developer hoping to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the former Dixmont State Hospital site won approval Monday of a key environmental permit from the state.
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_287476.html
WTOC This Year--Wal-Mart, Target, and the Truman Parkway
This year, a couple of stores were in the headlines a lot. Retail giants Target and Wal-Mart expanded, and so did the Truman Parkway. Phase three was completed late this year.
http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2741323&nav=0qq6UcUu
Thank you for calling your 'Arkansaw' City Wal-Mart
Retailer word gaffe offends local residents
By FOSS FARRAR
Traveler Staff Writer
A lot of riled-up Wal-Mart customers in Arkansas City want to know why the local store doesn't seem to know how to pronounce the name of the town.
http://www.arkcity.net/stories/122804/com_0002.shtml
Wal-Mart owns its sign, but not land
ANDREW TUTINO
Journal Staff
VanCort
ITHACA -- In the 1930s, Tompkins County was deeded a small, quarter-acre parcel of land along Elmira Road that was to be used for highway development. Long forgotten and thought to have been transferred to the state, the county owned the land without anyone knowing it.
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041228/localnews/1794737.html
Wal-Mart, Kmart Holiday Sales Results Boost Shares (Update1)
Listen
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said a surge in after-Christmas shopping boosted December same-store sales for a gain of about 3 percent, at the high end of its forecast. Kmart Holding Corp. said profit rose 10 percent during the holiday season after it controlled inventory to avoid deep discounts.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aM8QZzopcE5o&refer=news_index
Wal-Mart ups Dec. comp. sales view
By Susan Lerner, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:05 PM ET Jan. 3, 2005
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Wal-Mart shares climbed Monday after the retailing giant provided an outlook for December same-store sales that was above the target provided in its previous forecast.
Wal-Mart shares closed up 53 cents, or 1 percent, at $53.35....
Pasted from <http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory.asp?archive=true&dist=ArchiveSplash&siteid=google&guid=%7BC1EA1075%2D319C%2D47EE%2D968B%2D69E2D4433041%7D&returnURL=%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Easp%3Fguid%3D%7BC1EA1075%2D319C%2D47EE%2D968B%2D69E2D4433041%7D%26siteid%3Dgoogle%26dist%3Dgoogle%2C+%26archive%3Dtrue%26param%3Darchive%26garden%3D%26minisite%3D>
Dow Average Advances as Oil Drops, Wal-Mart Gains; Exxon Falls
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said December sales were at the top of its forecast, and oil prices dropped.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=az26.31Wd9lI&refer=us
Wal-Mart Shares Climb on Sales Uptick
January 4, 2005 6:28PM
In its weekly sales update, Wal-Mart forecast a rise of 3 percent in same-store sales for December. Based on the gain, Oppenheimer analyst Bernard Sosnick believes Wal-Mart should be able to meet its outlook for fourth quarter earnings of 71-73 cents a share.
http://www.cio-today.com/ciobusbrf/story.xhtml?story_title=Wal-Mart-Shares-Climb-on-Sales-Uptick&story_id=29475&category=ciobusbrf
Sandy Residents Want Wal-Mart Issue on Ballots
Jan. 4, 2005
John Daley Reporting
It's crunch time for Sandy citizens looking to stop a pair of big box retailers from building at the site of the city's last large parcel of open space. They're trying to put the issue on the ballot.
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=142496
2004 in review: Wal-Mart wants in
By ROY GRABER
(Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of four stories that review the news of 2004.)
Wal-Mart made its plans to build a Supercenter south of Winfield known when representatives of the company requested that a 23-acre tract of land be annexed into the city.
City and county officials eventually approved the annexation, but plenty of people were less than enthusiastic about the retailer’s plans. Leading the opposition were residents of the area, afraid to lose the quality of life offered by rural living.
http://www.winfieldcourier.com/w050108/Tues3.html
Scouring the Globe to Give Shoppers an $8.63 Polo Shirt
Wal-Mart, once a believer in buying American, extracts ever lower prices from 10,000 suppliers worldwide. Workers struggle to keep pace.
By Nancy Cleeland, Evelyn Iritani and Tyler Marshall, Times Staff Writers
SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS — When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. demands a lower price for the shirts and shorts it sells by the millions, the consequences are felt in a remote Chinese industrial town, at a port in Bangladesh and here in Honduras, under the corrugated metal roof of the Cosmos clothing factory.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-fi-walmart24nov2403,1,7288517.story
Audit Stance Generates Controver
By Evelyn Iritani and Nancy Cleeland, Times Staff Writers
Safe working conditions. Reasonable hours. No child labor.
These are among the rules that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers imposed on their foreign contractors after a series of scandals in the 1990s. Yet just how well Wal-Mart's contractors abide by its standards is something of a mystery — and a source of controversy.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nucodenov2403,1,765709.story
Grocery Unions Battle to Stop Invasion of the Giant Stores
Wal-Mart plans to open 40 of its nonunion Supercenters in California. Labor is fighting the expected onslaught, but the big retailer rarely concedes defeat.y Nancy Cleeland and Abigail Goldman, Times Staff Writers
Inglewood seemed to offer the perfect home for a new Wal-Mart Supercenter, with low-income residents hungry for bargains and a mayor craving the sales-tax revenue that flows from big-box stores.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart25nov2503,1,2907749.story
4 Tennesseans charged in Wal-Mart scam
By Colin Fly
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASHVILLE - In a town so small it doesn't even have a Wal-Mart, two Tennessee couples have been arrested in a scheme that used forged bar codes to defraud the retail giant of $1.5 million in 19 states over the past decade.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10542255.htm
Lafayette OKs efforts to entice Wal-Mart
Council approves incentive package; neighbors object
By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
January 1, 2005
LAFAYETTE - The City Council has approved an economic incentive package that it hopes will persuade Wal-Mart to construct a super center on 27 acres on the west side of U.S. 287.
The council agreed late Thursday to enter into negotiations with the company that would offer the world's largest retailer $2.3 million in incentives.
Pasted from <http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3438313,00.html
Sarasota County Commission's roadblocks stop Wal-Mart in its tracks
Sarasota County's controversial Wal-Mart denial is an illustration of the vagaries of handling growth and the sometimes arbitrary nature of decision-making on zoning issues.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041231/COLUMNIST55/412310463
Wal-Mart to become AmCan sign of the times?
Sunday, January 2, 2005
By DAVID RYAN
Register Staff Writer
The fast-growing city of American Canyon showed its divisions with a debate that ignited the community, cast a long shadow over the city council race and has now become a court battle. The question of whether a 176,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter would buoy or sink the city's economy was the biggest story in Napa County commerce in 2004, and it remains unresolved.
http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=592AA7BF-6381-4E34-89CA-6248AF470091
Wal-Mart opens store here
Friday, January 2, 2005
By Jessi De La Cruz
Staff Writer
The rolled-back prices, fears of destroying independent stores and potential for traffic snarls on the city's west side hit Jackson on July 21.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1104663954150150.xml
Wal-Mart, Home Depot spark concerns among Juneau residents
Assembly to hold public hearing about Home Depot on Jan. 10
By TONY CARROLL
JUNEAU EMPIRE
Residents seem to agree that the cost of living in Juneau is high. But the prospect of international retailers coming to town with the promise of low prices has sparked debate.
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010205/loc_20050102006.shtml
Wal-Mart's women -- employees and customers -- in unhealthy relationship
By LIZA FEATHERSTONE
GUEST COLUMNIST
On the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year, Wal-Mart's many progressive critics -- not to mention its business competitors -- finally enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude when the retailer had to admit to "disappointing" sales. The problem was quickly revealed: Wal-Mart hadn't been discounting aggressively enough. Without low prices, Wal-Mart just isn't Wal-Mart.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/205768_focus02.html
$1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores
Posted by samzenpus on Fri Dec 31, '04 02:59 AM
from the your-total-is-one-dollar dept.
nomrniceguy writes "Two couples have been charged in a price-switching scheme that allegedly defrauded Wal-Mart stores in 19 states of $1.5 million over the last decade. Authorities said the scheme involved using a home computer to produce UPC bar codes for cheaper products and slipping them over the real codes on high-priced items. The suspects then allegedly sold the merchandise, or returned it for refunds or store gift cards that also were sold."
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/0321231&from=rs
Colorado Wal-Mart workers reject union
By JON SARCHE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A pedestrian walks past a Wal-Mart sign in Loveland, Colo., Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. There was a vote to unionize at the Loveland location. Workers at the Tire & Lube Express voted 17-1 against union representation Friday, rejecting efforts to establish what would have been the first union inside any Wal-Mart store in the United States. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
LOVELAND, Colo. -- Workers at a Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express voted 17-1 against union representation Friday, rejecting efforts to establish what would have been the second union inside any Wal-Mart store in the United States.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/apbiz_story.asp?category=1310&slug=Wal%20Mart%20Union&searchdiff=3&searchpagefrom=1
AFL-CIO chief details agenda for meeting
By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LAS VEGAS -- AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said he'll study slashing member contributions by as much as half so that local unions would have more money to boost recruitment and reverse years of shrinking membership.
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Wal-Mart to pay $14.5M over gun violations
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
By JIM WASSERMAN. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $14.5 million in fines and other costs to settle a ...
Wal-Mart employees to exchange vows at work
Associated Press
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. - Paula Alvarez and Dale Thompson knew their friends and fellow employees at Wal-Mart might not be able to attend their wedding because of work.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10572702.htm
Bar-Code Scam at Wal-Mart: A Matter of Priorities
By
Evan Schuman
January 5, 2005
Opinion: The fact that shoplifters nabbed $1.5 million across 19 states is not a technology, people or training problem. Rather, it shows that management needs to re-evaluate its obsession with keeping the line moving.
The most well-planned and meticulously detailed crimes are often foiled by the commonplace. The thieves might map out their route precisely, coordinating it based on when various employees come and go. But security guard No. 9 gets a flat tire that morning, shows up 35 minutes late and ruins everything.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1748547,00.asp
City follows proper path on Wal-Mart rezoning
By TONY MESSENGER
Published Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Well, Toto, at least we’re not in Kansas anymore.
That’s the path some Columbia residents wanted to send our city down with their anti-Wal-Mart protests that reached a fevered pitch early this week.
Columbia city council members - most of them, anyway - resisted drinking the Kool-Aid and instead did the only thing they could do Monday night. They passed a rezoning request that guarantees a Wal-Mart will be built at the corner of Broadway and Fairview Road but also ensures that important improvements to the site and surrounding roads will come with it.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Jan/20050105Feat001.asp
Wal-Mart, U.S. Retailers Post 2.7% Dec. Sales Gain (Update7)
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Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Saks Inc. posted the second-biggest December sales gain in five years after discounts sparked a late surge in holiday shopping.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aRX91kmWk0Q8&refer=us
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What is good for stock options is good for people?
Wal-Mart foes condemn proposed city superstore
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
January 6, 2005, 7:51 PM EST
New York is an oasis of small businesses and tight-knit communities, and the metropolis should be spared the negative effects of a local Wal-Mart, opponents of the retailer said at a City Council hearing Thursday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-box0107,0,7641270.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines
Wal-Mart Paints Bull's-Eye on Itself
By Rich Smith
January 6, 2005
Let me preface this column with a disclaimer: "Warning -- Highly Speculative." I'm going to connect two dots, even though the line, in reality, may never be drawn.
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05010613.htm
Moody's warns apparel retailers of Wal-Mart girth
By Jennifer Waters, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:51 PM ET Jan. 10, 2005
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Beware apparel retailers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is nipping at your heels
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Moody's Investors Services is predicting that Wal-Mart's "next big growth segment" is clothing and accessories -- a move that would put unprecedented competitive pressure on major department and clothing stores as Wal-Mart makes inroads into apparel that will make its penetration into the grocery-store industry look like, well, small potatoes.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B511A4477-B51B-42EC-8C84-2D12544EB9C7%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Wal-Mart lumbers towards $500B in sales
New industry report says the retail behemoth could hit half-trillion dollar in sales by 2010.
January 10, 2005: 4:28 PM EST
By Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money staff writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Despite its wobbly performance during the 2004 holiday shopping season where consumers shunned Wal-Mart for being stingy with discounts, at least one new industry report Monday says the retail behemoth is still on track to hit a half-trillion dollar in sales by 2010.
In a report titled Wal-Mart 2010, market research firm Retail Forward said the world's largest retailer will top $500 billion in five years and will own 12 percent of all retail sales in the United States.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/10/news/fortune500/walmart/?cnn=yes
Wal-Mart frustrates Netflix, drops online DVD rentals to $12.97 a month
Posted Jan 10, 2005, 4:43 PM ET by Peter Rojas
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We’ll most likely holdout for them to drop the price to a nice round $9.99 a month, or at least wait for the introduction of an army of child laborers to hand deliver our DVDs to us before signing up, but Wal-Mart has apparently decided to more or less bankrupt Netflix (and take on Blockbuster) by dropping the price of their monthly online DVD rental service to just $12.97 a month. Not like they’re offering as fine a selection of movies as you’ll find at Netflix or many other companies, it’s just that in the long run there might not be enough people willing to spend the extra $5.02 a month that Netflix costs simply to get access to a lot of the more obscure (and less family-friendly) DVD titles Wal-Mart isn’t going to carry. Most people who rent movies aren’t exactly going to be pissed that Wal-Mart carries only one Dusan Makavejev film.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000510026849/
$7.6 Million "Wal-Mart FLW Tour To Kick Off On Lake Okeechobee
by Dave Washburn, communications / FLW Outdoors
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(Jan. 10, 2005 - CLEWISTON, FL.)... The $7.6 million Wal-Mart FLW Tour will kick off its 10th year of competition Jan. 19-22 with a $900,000 event presented by EverStart Batteries on Lake Okeechobee in Clewiston, Fla. Hosted by Roland and Mary Ann Martin’s Marina and Resort, the tournament features 400 anglers from the United States, Japan, Spain and Australia, with 200 of the world’s best bass pros fishing for a top award of $100,000 cash. Two hundred co-anglers will also compete for a top award of $20,000 cash.
http://www.fishingworld.com/News/Read.php?ArtID=000013683
Wal-Mart Supercenter coming to city
By: Tim Kalich, Editor
January 10, 2005
Retail giant to move forward with development this year
Wal-Mart is going to put a Supercenter in Greenwood, its store manager confirmed today. Odessa Sumlin said details for the relocat
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13716558&BRD=1838&PAG=461&dept_id=104621&rfi=6
Wal-Mart to Top $500 Billion by 2010, New Retail Forward Study Reports
JANUARY 11, 2005 -- COLUMBUS, OH — Following a rocky start to the holiday 2004 season, Wal-Mart eeked out the performance that was expected of it after all. But can it continue to outdo itself time and time again? By 2010, Wal-Mart will top $500 billion and will own 12% of all non-auto/non-gasoline retail sales in the United States, forecasts Retail Forward.
http://www.retail-merchandiser.com/retailmerchandiser/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000750337
Wal-Mart starts national ad campaign to redeem image
NEW YORK: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s biggest retailer, has launched a national advertising campaign to repair an image tarnished by allegations that it discriminates in hiring and promotions and drives smaller rivals out of business.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/15/business/9904981&sec=business
We're a super store, says Wal-Mart
WAL-MART, the owner of the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain Asda, has launched a national advertising campaign in the United States in a bid to present a better image of itself.
In the past, its name has been associated with negative claims about its hiring practices, stance toward unions and behaviour toward competitors.
http://business.scotsman.com/retail.cfm?id=48572005
Wal-Mart critics aren't appeased
By Lorrie Grant, USA TODAY
Critics derided as self-serving Wal-Mart's national advertising and public relations effort, rolled out on Thursday, that aims to answer detractors by highlighting fair labor policies, health benefits, merchandise sourcing practices and more. (Related: Wal-Mart CEO vows 'unfiltered truth')
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2005-01-13-wal-mart-usat_x.htm
Wal-Mart Says January Same-Store Sales Rise Within Its Forecast
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said January sales are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent as shoppers bought more food and redeemed gift cards.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a25CK3UL9WC4&refer=home
Wal-Mart: Jan. sales within forecast
By Carla Mozee, CBS MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:39 PM ET Jan. 15, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Wal-Mart Stores said Saturday that U.S. same-store sales for January are rising within its forecast for 2 percent to 4 percent growth.
Wal-Mart (WMT: news, chart, profile) said shoppers purchased more food than general merchandise during the week ended Jan. 15, reversing last week's trend.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B754D9E6E-FBB0-43F8-A9B0-4D318B274C26%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Highland Village debating Wal-Mart project
Some say there'd go the neighborhood; others want the tax revenue
08:30 PM CST on Saturday, January 15, 2005
By KEVIN KRAUSE / The Dallas Morning News
HIGHLAND VILLAGE – Some have already begun to take sides.
But on Tuesday night, Highland Village residents can attend a public hearing at the scheduled planning and zoning meeting to hear the pros and cons of a proposed 203,000-square-foot Wal-Mart as the anchor of a retail development.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011605dnmetwalmart.62565.html
POLICE ARREST SUSPECT SOON AFTER WAL-MART BOMB THREAT
BY CHRISTI MATHIS
FOR THE SOUTHERN
DU QUOIN -- Less than an hour after a bomb threat caused a lengthy evacuation of the Du Quoin Wal-Mart store, police arrested a suspect and charged him with placing a call claiming a chemical bomb had been placed in the store's duct system.
http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2005/01/15/local/doc41e91a69aa8a5711373222.txt
Voters probably like Wal-Mart
Last Updated: January 15, 2005, 04:55:20 AM PST
In response to the Jan. 4 letter "Wal-Mart Threatens the American Way": The Turlock City Council, acting on behalf of the large grocery store owners, said no, not Turlock voters. I maintain that if the choice were actually left to voters, we would soon have our own Super Wal-Mart.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/9773927p-10637138c.html
Darkness lurks behind Wal-Mart smiley face
By Peter Chianca/ At Large
Sunday, January 16, 2005
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I don't know about you, but I sort of miss the days when Wal-Mart was harmless. You know, back when they were just a mammoth conglomerate putting small retailers out of business and forcing manufacturing jobs overseas, thus helping to cripple the U.S. economy. They were almo...
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=63794
Wal-Mart plan denied by panel
By Shirley Jinkins
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
ARLINGTON - Planning and Zoning commissioners denied a proposal to build a 229,949-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter at Little Road and U.S. 287 at their regular meeting Wednesday.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/10660189.htm
Wal-Mart's runoff system has worked well, officials say
NEWS TRIBUNE
The success of Hermantown Wal-Mart's current storm-runoff system is critical in discussions about the proposed Wal-Mart expansion.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10656317.htm
Wal-Mart expects 2-4% sales increase
Wal-Mart Stores expects its January same-store sales to increase by 2 percent to 4 percent over last year, which is in line with its previous forecast.
http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2005/01/17/daily9.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Two Struck By Car In Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Couple In Serious Condition
POSTED: 5:12 pm EST January 17, 2005
UPDATED: 6:27 pm EST January 18, 2005
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- A couple visiting Florida from Colombia were struck by a car and critically injured in a Wal-Mart parking lot Monday afternoon.
http://www.nbc6.net/news/4090187/detail.html
Wal-Mart Forecasts January Sales Growth at 2-4 Percent
1/17/05 11:37:36 AM
By Arkansas Business staff, Arkansasbusiness.com Daily Report
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said in a Saturday sales briefing that it expects U.S. same-store sales to rise 2 percent to 4 percent in January, in line with its previous prediction.
http://arkansasbusiness.com/news/headline_article.asp?aid=39674
Wal-Mart likes high-tech tags
By Greta Guest
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart declared radio frequency identification (RFID) a success yesterday and announced plans to expand the pilot program to 600 stores and a dozen distribution centers by fall.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002153205_rfid18.html
CPSC, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Announce Recall of Slow Cookers
Tuesday January 18, 3:34 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (To access color photos of the following recalled product, see CPSC's Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov.)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050118/dctu057_1.html
Wal-Mart Workers at a Second Quebec Store Join Union (Update3)
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Employees at a second Quebec outlet of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won the right to bargain with the world's largest retailer after the province's labor board approved their entry into a union.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aOilRn_a4KTI&refer=canada
Wal-Mart and CITIC plan hundreds of China stores
HONG KONG: The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, will team up with CITIC Pacific Co Ltd to open hundreds of stores in China, a booming but increasingly competitive market, over the next five years, the Beijing-backed conglomerate said yesterday.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/20/business/9948739&sec=business
Wal-Mart first step in area's development
Some residents concerned about traffic
By KATHY WAGSTAFF
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/20/05
When Jack and Mary Ann Lockaby moved their family to Cherokee County in 1975, Eagle Drive was a dirt road, and children could run through the woods to Lake Allatoona without seeing a house or a person.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/0105/20walmart.html
Rookie Lane Leads $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Event on Lake Okeechobee
Wednesday January 19, 7:28 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wal-Mart FLW Tour's 10th anniversary season is officially under way on Lake Okeechobee with rookie pro Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Fla., leading the pack thanks to an opening-day limit of five bass weighing 23 pounds, 8 ounces. Lane, who is fishing his first FLW Tour event after earning 11 top-10s in EverStart Series and Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League competition the last three years, opened a 12-ounce lead over second-place pro Jerry Green of Justiceburg, Texas, in his quest for a $100,000 payday in the first of seven FLW Tour events that will award a record $7.6 million in 2005.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050119/clw087_1.html
Moore nominated for Directors Guild award
Associated Press
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Los Angeles —
Michael Moore has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for directorial achievement in documentary filmmaking for Fahrenheit 9/11, his assault on President Bush's actions regarding the Sept. 11 attacks.
The guild also nominated Jehane Noujaim for Control Room. She won the award for 2001's Startup.com.
The full text of this article has 132 words.
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Alameda County suit alleges Wal-Mart cheated workers
Three former Wal-Mart employees, including one who worked at the company's San Leandro store, have filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that Wal-Mart manipulated their time cards to cut their pay.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/01/20/walmart20.DTL
Wal-Mart faces another unionized store in Quebec
By MARINA STRAUSS
RETAILING REPORTER
Thursday, January 20, 2005, Page B4
Wal-Mart Canada Corp. faces a second unionized store in Quebec as the world's largest retailer scrambles to polish its overall image.
Employees at the Wal-Mart in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., were certified as a bargaining unit by the Quebec Labour Relations Commission this week. The commission found that a majority of the workers had signed cards with United Food and Commercial Workers Canada.
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Wal-Mart clears a hurdle
Zoning panel OKs controversial plan; council to weigh in next
07:27 PM CST on Thursday, January 20, 2005
By TOYA LYNN STEWART / The Dallas Morning News
The Highland Village Planning and Zoning Commission approved a 66-acre retail development project that would be anchored by a 20-acre Wal-Mart Supercenter, sending the issue to the City Council.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/012105dndenWalmart.6753a.html
Study shows thousands of Wal-Mart employees on TennCare
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A study shows that thousands of Wal-Mart employees are on TennCare, the state's expanded Medicaid program, providing fodder for critics who say the retail giant and other businesses are shifting costs for low-paid employees onto the backs of taxpayers.
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2835685
Abducted Wal-Mart Clerk's Body Found
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
TYLER, Texas -- A college student whose abduction was captured on a surveillance videotape as she was leaving her clerk's job at a Wal-Mart was found shot to ...
Kennedy Retains Lead on Day Three of $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Event on Lake Okeechobee
Friday January 21, 7:20 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pedigree pro Steve Kennedy of Auburn, Ala., caught a five-bass limit weighing 17 pounds, 4 ounces Friday to retain his lead in the $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour stop on Lake Okeechobee. The event, which is presented by EverStart Batteries, featured 200 pros in the hunt for a top award of $100,000 cash. Only 10 anglers remain, however, as the tournament draws to a close Saturday.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050121/clf060_1.html
Wal-Mart and Home Depot Opening Wednesday
When the mega-retailers open their doors Wednesday, look for Wal-Mart and Home Depot hosting mini-events.
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Both stores are spreading out the grand-opening activities over a period of time after the formal ribbon-cuttings. Home Depot will have several days’ worth of mini events, and Wal-Mart will stretch its grand-opening activities over the next couple of weeks. However, not all plans are confirmed yet, so details on some have not been publicized.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2068&dept_id=387472&newsid=13801624&PAG=461&rfi=9
January 22, 2005
Abducted TX Wal-Mart Clerk's Body Found
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA
UPDATE, SAT 5PM: Authorities in Texas say an abducted Wal-Mart clerk was apparently chosen over other possible victims. The police ...
Wal-Mart: Jan. same-store sales in line
Discovering the power of credit
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:45 PM ET Jan. 22, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Same-store sales at Wal-Mart's U.S. locations are moving in line with its forecast for 2 percent to 4 percent growth in January, the company said Saturday.
For the week ended Jan. 22, shoppers at the world's largest retailer purchased more food items than general merchandise.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9EB3264B-AE2B-466D-BB04-DDB4B9B670B7%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Wal-Mart Says January Sales Are Rising Within Its Forecast
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said January sales are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent as shoppers purchased food more than general merchandise.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a47vG09PSXmo&refer=home
Jordon Wins $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Season Opener on Lake Okeechobee
Saturday January 22, 5:46 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro Kelly Jordon of Mineola, Texas, caught four bass weighing 23 pounds in the final hours of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour season opener presented by EverStart Batteries on Lake Okeechobee to earn the first $100,000 winner's check of the tour's 10th anniversary season -- a season in which the top bass anglers in the world will earn $7.6 million in seven events.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050122/nysa012_1.html
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BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
January 6, 2005, 7:51 PM EST
New York is an oasis of small businesses and tight-knit communities, and the metropolis should be spared the negative effects of a local Wal-Mart, opponents of the retailer said at a City Council hearing Thursday.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-box0107,0,7641270.story?coll=ny-nynews-headlines
Wal-Mart Paints Bull's-Eye on Itself
By Rich Smith
January 6, 2005
Let me preface this column with a disclaimer: "Warning -- Highly Speculative." I'm going to connect two dots, even though the line, in reality, may never be drawn.
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05010613.htm
Moody's warns apparel retailers of Wal-Mart girth
By Jennifer Waters, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:51 PM ET Jan. 10, 2005
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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Beware apparel retailers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is nipping at your heels
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Moody's Investors Services is predicting that Wal-Mart's "next big growth segment" is clothing and accessories -- a move that would put unprecedented competitive pressure on major department and clothing stores as Wal-Mart makes inroads into apparel that will make its penetration into the grocery-store industry look like, well, small potatoes.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B511A4477-B51B-42EC-8C84-2D12544EB9C7%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Wal-Mart lumbers towards $500B in sales
New industry report says the retail behemoth could hit half-trillion dollar in sales by 2010.
January 10, 2005: 4:28 PM EST
By Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money staff writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Despite its wobbly performance during the 2004 holiday shopping season where consumers shunned Wal-Mart for being stingy with discounts, at least one new industry report Monday says the retail behemoth is still on track to hit a half-trillion dollar in sales by 2010.
In a report titled Wal-Mart 2010, market research firm Retail Forward said the world's largest retailer will top $500 billion in five years and will own 12 percent of all retail sales in the United States.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/10/news/fortune500/walmart/?cnn=yes
Wal-Mart frustrates Netflix, drops online DVD rentals to $12.97 a month
Posted Jan 10, 2005, 4:43 PM ET by Peter Rojas
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We’ll most likely holdout for them to drop the price to a nice round $9.99 a month, or at least wait for the introduction of an army of child laborers to hand deliver our DVDs to us before signing up, but Wal-Mart has apparently decided to more or less bankrupt Netflix (and take on Blockbuster) by dropping the price of their monthly online DVD rental service to just $12.97 a month. Not like they’re offering as fine a selection of movies as you’ll find at Netflix or many other companies, it’s just that in the long run there might not be enough people willing to spend the extra $5.02 a month that Netflix costs simply to get access to a lot of the more obscure (and less family-friendly) DVD titles Wal-Mart isn’t going to carry. Most people who rent movies aren’t exactly going to be pissed that Wal-Mart carries only one Dusan Makavejev film.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000510026849/
$7.6 Million "Wal-Mart FLW Tour To Kick Off On Lake Okeechobee
by Dave Washburn, communications / FLW Outdoors
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(Jan. 10, 2005 - CLEWISTON, FL.)... The $7.6 million Wal-Mart FLW Tour will kick off its 10th year of competition Jan. 19-22 with a $900,000 event presented by EverStart Batteries on Lake Okeechobee in Clewiston, Fla. Hosted by Roland and Mary Ann Martin’s Marina and Resort, the tournament features 400 anglers from the United States, Japan, Spain and Australia, with 200 of the world’s best bass pros fishing for a top award of $100,000 cash. Two hundred co-anglers will also compete for a top award of $20,000 cash.
http://www.fishingworld.com/News/Read.php?ArtID=000013683
Wal-Mart Supercenter coming to city
By: Tim Kalich, Editor
January 10, 2005
Retail giant to move forward with development this year
Wal-Mart is going to put a Supercenter in Greenwood, its store manager confirmed today. Odessa Sumlin said details for the relocat
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13716558&BRD=1838&PAG=461&dept_id=104621&rfi=6
Wal-Mart to Top $500 Billion by 2010, New Retail Forward Study Reports
JANUARY 11, 2005 -- COLUMBUS, OH — Following a rocky start to the holiday 2004 season, Wal-Mart eeked out the performance that was expected of it after all. But can it continue to outdo itself time and time again? By 2010, Wal-Mart will top $500 billion and will own 12% of all non-auto/non-gasoline retail sales in the United States, forecasts Retail Forward.
http://www.retail-merchandiser.com/retailmerchandiser/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000750337
Wal-Mart starts national ad campaign to redeem image
NEW YORK: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s biggest retailer, has launched a national advertising campaign to repair an image tarnished by allegations that it discriminates in hiring and promotions and drives smaller rivals out of business.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/15/business/9904981&sec=business
We're a super store, says Wal-Mart
WAL-MART, the owner of the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain Asda, has launched a national advertising campaign in the United States in a bid to present a better image of itself.
In the past, its name has been associated with negative claims about its hiring practices, stance toward unions and behaviour toward competitors.
http://business.scotsman.com/retail.cfm?id=48572005
Wal-Mart critics aren't appeased
By Lorrie Grant, USA TODAY
Critics derided as self-serving Wal-Mart's national advertising and public relations effort, rolled out on Thursday, that aims to answer detractors by highlighting fair labor policies, health benefits, merchandise sourcing practices and more. (Related: Wal-Mart CEO vows 'unfiltered truth')
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2005-01-13-wal-mart-usat_x.htm
Wal-Mart Says January Same-Store Sales Rise Within Its Forecast
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said January sales are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent as shoppers bought more food and redeemed gift cards.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a25CK3UL9WC4&refer=home
Wal-Mart: Jan. sales within forecast
By Carla Mozee, CBS MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:39 PM ET Jan. 15, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Wal-Mart Stores said Saturday that U.S. same-store sales for January are rising within its forecast for 2 percent to 4 percent growth.
Wal-Mart (WMT: news, chart, profile) said shoppers purchased more food than general merchandise during the week ended Jan. 15, reversing last week's trend.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B754D9E6E-FBB0-43F8-A9B0-4D318B274C26%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Highland Village debating Wal-Mart project
Some say there'd go the neighborhood; others want the tax revenue
08:30 PM CST on Saturday, January 15, 2005
By KEVIN KRAUSE / The Dallas Morning News
HIGHLAND VILLAGE – Some have already begun to take sides.
But on Tuesday night, Highland Village residents can attend a public hearing at the scheduled planning and zoning meeting to hear the pros and cons of a proposed 203,000-square-foot Wal-Mart as the anchor of a retail development.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/011605dnmetwalmart.62565.html
POLICE ARREST SUSPECT SOON AFTER WAL-MART BOMB THREAT
BY CHRISTI MATHIS
FOR THE SOUTHERN
DU QUOIN -- Less than an hour after a bomb threat caused a lengthy evacuation of the Du Quoin Wal-Mart store, police arrested a suspect and charged him with placing a call claiming a chemical bomb had been placed in the store's duct system.
http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2005/01/15/local/doc41e91a69aa8a5711373222.txt
Voters probably like Wal-Mart
Last Updated: January 15, 2005, 04:55:20 AM PST
In response to the Jan. 4 letter "Wal-Mart Threatens the American Way": The Turlock City Council, acting on behalf of the large grocery store owners, said no, not Turlock voters. I maintain that if the choice were actually left to voters, we would soon have our own Super Wal-Mart.
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters/story/9773927p-10637138c.html
Darkness lurks behind Wal-Mart smiley face
By Peter Chianca/ At Large
Sunday, January 16, 2005
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I don't know about you, but I sort of miss the days when Wal-Mart was harmless. You know, back when they were just a mammoth conglomerate putting small retailers out of business and forcing manufacturing jobs overseas, thus helping to cripple the U.S. economy. They were almo...
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=63794
Wal-Mart plan denied by panel
By Shirley Jinkins
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
ARLINGTON - Planning and Zoning commissioners denied a proposal to build a 229,949-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter at Little Road and U.S. 287 at their regular meeting Wednesday.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/10660189.htm
Wal-Mart's runoff system has worked well, officials say
NEWS TRIBUNE
The success of Hermantown Wal-Mart's current storm-runoff system is critical in discussions about the proposed Wal-Mart expansion.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10656317.htm
Wal-Mart expects 2-4% sales increase
Wal-Mart Stores expects its January same-store sales to increase by 2 percent to 4 percent over last year, which is in line with its previous forecast.
http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2005/01/17/daily9.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Two Struck By Car In Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Couple In Serious Condition
POSTED: 5:12 pm EST January 17, 2005
UPDATED: 6:27 pm EST January 18, 2005
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- A couple visiting Florida from Colombia were struck by a car and critically injured in a Wal-Mart parking lot Monday afternoon.
http://www.nbc6.net/news/4090187/detail.html
Wal-Mart Forecasts January Sales Growth at 2-4 Percent
1/17/05 11:37:36 AM
By Arkansas Business staff, Arkansasbusiness.com Daily Report
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said in a Saturday sales briefing that it expects U.S. same-store sales to rise 2 percent to 4 percent in January, in line with its previous prediction.
http://arkansasbusiness.com/news/headline_article.asp?aid=39674
Wal-Mart likes high-tech tags
By Greta Guest
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart declared radio frequency identification (RFID) a success yesterday and announced plans to expand the pilot program to 600 stores and a dozen distribution centers by fall.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002153205_rfid18.html
CPSC, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Announce Recall of Slow Cookers
Tuesday January 18, 3:34 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (To access color photos of the following recalled product, see CPSC's Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov.)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050118/dctu057_1.html
Wal-Mart Workers at a Second Quebec Store Join Union (Update3)
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Employees at a second Quebec outlet of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won the right to bargain with the world's largest retailer after the province's labor board approved their entry into a union.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=aOilRn_a4KTI&refer=canada
Wal-Mart and CITIC plan hundreds of China stores
HONG KONG: The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, will team up with CITIC Pacific Co Ltd to open hundreds of stores in China, a booming but increasingly competitive market, over the next five years, the Beijing-backed conglomerate said yesterday.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/20/business/9948739&sec=business
Wal-Mart first step in area's development
Some residents concerned about traffic
By KATHY WAGSTAFF
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/20/05
When Jack and Mary Ann Lockaby moved their family to Cherokee County in 1975, Eagle Drive was a dirt road, and children could run through the woods to Lake Allatoona without seeing a house or a person.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/0105/20walmart.html
Rookie Lane Leads $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Event on Lake Okeechobee
Wednesday January 19, 7:28 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wal-Mart FLW Tour's 10th anniversary season is officially under way on Lake Okeechobee with rookie pro Bobby Lane of Lakeland, Fla., leading the pack thanks to an opening-day limit of five bass weighing 23 pounds, 8 ounces. Lane, who is fishing his first FLW Tour event after earning 11 top-10s in EverStart Series and Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League competition the last three years, opened a 12-ounce lead over second-place pro Jerry Green of Justiceburg, Texas, in his quest for a $100,000 payday in the first of seven FLW Tour events that will award a record $7.6 million in 2005.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050119/clw087_1.html
Moore nominated for Directors Guild award
Associated Press
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Los Angeles —
Michael Moore has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for directorial achievement in documentary filmmaking for Fahrenheit 9/11, his assault on President Bush's actions regarding the Sept. 11 attacks.
The guild also nominated Jehane Noujaim for Control Room. She won the award for 2001's Startup.com.
The full text of this article has 132 words.
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Alameda County suit alleges Wal-Mart cheated workers
Three former Wal-Mart employees, including one who worked at the company's San Leandro store, have filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that Wal-Mart manipulated their time cards to cut their pay.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/01/20/walmart20.DTL
Wal-Mart faces another unionized store in Quebec
By MARINA STRAUSS
RETAILING REPORTER
Thursday, January 20, 2005, Page B4
Wal-Mart Canada Corp. faces a second unionized store in Quebec as the world's largest retailer scrambles to polish its overall image.
Employees at the Wal-Mart in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., were certified as a bargaining unit by the Quebec Labour Relations Commission this week. The commission found that a majority of the workers had signed cards with United Food and Commercial Workers Canada.
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Wal-Mart clears a hurdle
Zoning panel OKs controversial plan; council to weigh in next
07:27 PM CST on Thursday, January 20, 2005
By TOYA LYNN STEWART / The Dallas Morning News
The Highland Village Planning and Zoning Commission approved a 66-acre retail development project that would be anchored by a 20-acre Wal-Mart Supercenter, sending the issue to the City Council.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/012105dndenWalmart.6753a.html
Study shows thousands of Wal-Mart employees on TennCare
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A study shows that thousands of Wal-Mart employees are on TennCare, the state's expanded Medicaid program, providing fodder for critics who say the retail giant and other businesses are shifting costs for low-paid employees onto the backs of taxpayers.
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=2835685
Abducted Wal-Mart Clerk's Body Found
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
TYLER, Texas -- A college student whose abduction was captured on a surveillance videotape as she was leaving her clerk's job at a Wal-Mart was found shot to ...
Kennedy Retains Lead on Day Three of $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Event on Lake Okeechobee
Friday January 21, 7:20 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pedigree pro Steve Kennedy of Auburn, Ala., caught a five-bass limit weighing 17 pounds, 4 ounces Friday to retain his lead in the $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour stop on Lake Okeechobee. The event, which is presented by EverStart Batteries, featured 200 pros in the hunt for a top award of $100,000 cash. Only 10 anglers remain, however, as the tournament draws to a close Saturday.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050121/clf060_1.html
Wal-Mart and Home Depot Opening Wednesday
When the mega-retailers open their doors Wednesday, look for Wal-Mart and Home Depot hosting mini-events.
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Both stores are spreading out the grand-opening activities over a period of time after the formal ribbon-cuttings. Home Depot will have several days’ worth of mini events, and Wal-Mart will stretch its grand-opening activities over the next couple of weeks. However, not all plans are confirmed yet, so details on some have not been publicized.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2068&dept_id=387472&newsid=13801624&PAG=461&rfi=9
January 22, 2005
Abducted TX Wal-Mart Clerk's Body Found
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA
UPDATE, SAT 5PM: Authorities in Texas say an abducted Wal-Mart clerk was apparently chosen over other possible victims. The police ...
Wal-Mart: Jan. same-store sales in line
Discovering the power of credit
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:45 PM ET Jan. 22, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Same-store sales at Wal-Mart's U.S. locations are moving in line with its forecast for 2 percent to 4 percent growth in January, the company said Saturday.
For the week ended Jan. 22, shoppers at the world's largest retailer purchased more food items than general merchandise.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9EB3264B-AE2B-466D-BB04-DDB4B9B670B7%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
Wal-Mart Says January Sales Are Rising Within Its Forecast
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said January sales are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent as shoppers purchased food more than general merchandise.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a47vG09PSXmo&refer=home
Jordon Wins $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour Season Opener on Lake Okeechobee
Saturday January 22, 5:46 pm ET
CLEWISTON, Fla., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro Kelly Jordon of Mineola, Texas, caught four bass weighing 23 pounds in the final hours of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour season opener presented by EverStart Batteries on Lake Okeechobee to earn the first $100,000 winner's check of the tour's 10th anniversary season -- a season in which the top bass anglers in the world will earn $7.6 million in seven events.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050122/nysa012_1.html
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Living on the Cheap. Cheap wages, cheap goods, cheap America. Bush's cheap and taudry America.
Whatever happened to SEARS, where America shops?
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?
From: Issue 77 December 2003, Page 68 By: Charles Fishman Photographs by: Livia Corona
A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Wal-Mart Estimates Rise in January Sales
Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. predicts January sales for its U.S. stores will increase 2 percent to 4 percent compared to January 2004.
The world's largest retailer provided its estimate for same-store sales - stores open for at least a year - for the four-weeks ending Friday in its weekly sales update.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/financial_markets/10715977.htm
Tracking Wal-Mart
January 23, 2005
Last we knew: The city of Lafayette, fearing Wal-Mart would close its aging store in town, offered the retail giant $2.3 million in incentives to buy land on the west side of U.S. 287 between Baseline and Arapahoe roads, which could be used as a site for a larger supercenter store.
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/lafayette_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2425_3491829,00.html
Wal-Mart arguments
January 23, 2005
Pay
Against: The company pays employees poorly.
For: Wal-Mart's 1.2 million sales associates earn an average of $9.68 an hour
Insurance
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_3491791,00.html
Heed lesson of Wal-Mart: know plans for the land
By HOWARD TROXLER, Times Columnist
Published January 23, 2005
When did our commission lose the power to say no?
- Christopher Still, Tarpon Springs artist and Wal-Mart opponent
This past Tuesday evening in Tarpon Springs, as many as 400 people gathered for a showdown before the City Commission about allowing a Wal-Mart supercenter on the east side of U.S. 19, on the south side of the Anclote River.
Wal-Mart won.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/23/Columns/Heed_lesson_of_Wal_Ma.shtml
Wal-Mart Abduction Suspect Awaits Extradition Hearing
The man arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing a Tyler Wal-Mart cashier is still in Arizona. He's awaiting an extradition hearing that could come as soon as tomorrow.
Johnny Lee Williams, Jr., 24, of Tyler, sits in a jail cell in Cochise County. He was arrested at a hospital there, after getting treated for a gunshot wound he suffered during a failed robbery attempt.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2851165&nav=1TjDVYNZ
Wal-Mart Sticks to January Guidance
By TSC Staff
1/24/2005 7:28 AM EST
Wal-Mart (WMT:NYSE - news - research) stuck to previous guidance for January sales, saying food receipts should offset the late arrival of the Super Bowl in 2005.
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Wal-Mart predicts sales increase
By The Associated Press
Bentonville, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. predicts January sales for its U.S. stores will increase 2 percent to 4 percent compared to January 2004.
The world's largest retailer provided its estimate for same-store sales — stores open for at least a year — for the four weeks ending Friday in its weekly sales update.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/business/today/0124-WalMartpre-286338.html
When new neighbor is Wal-Mart
Elizabeth Anderson knows well how new development can change a neighborhood.
Fifteen years ago she and her family lived on the quiet east end of Water Street. The rarely traveled dirt road was ideal for her children because they could easily cross the street to neighbors’ houses without her worrying about them.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2068&dept_id=387467&newsid=13810728&PAG=461&rfi=9
Wal-Mart expects 2%-4% sales increase
Wal-Mart Stores expects a 2%-4% increase in January sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year.
http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2005/01/24/daily5.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Wal-Mart has an ear for iPod market
Published: January 31, 2005, 6:45 PM PST
By Alorie Gilbert and Ina Fried
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Wal-Mart Stores has quietly begun selling Apple Computer's popular iPod Minis in select stores, the mega retailer's first big move into the market for the enormously popular digital music players.
The discount chain is selling Minis in a "limited number of stores," a Wal-Mart representative said Monday. The representative declined to elaborate on how many of the company's nearly 5,000 stores are carrying the device.
http://news.com.com/Wal-Mart+has+an+ear+for+iPod+market/2100-1041_3-5558041.html
Report: Wal-Mart bids for Littlewoods
By Dan Burrows, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:11 PM ET Jan. 31, 2005
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores' U.K.-based Asda subsidiary made an unsolicited bid for Littlewoods Stores, according to a published report.
TRADING CENTER
Wal-Mart's (WMT: news, chart, profile) Asda business offered 500 million pounds ($944 million) for the 186-store British retail chain, the Telegraph reported Sunday.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B51A61B27-CC30-4674-BDD7-CA4935B657F8%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
First labor union at Wal-Mart?
Employees at a Colorado store have been granted approval by NLRB to hold a union election.
January 31, 2005: 1:44 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNN) - Employees at a Colorado Wal-Mart tire and auto maintenance shop have been granted approval to hold a union election that could create the first ever organized labor group at the country's biggest retailer.
Workers at the Loveland, Colo., Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express are expected to vote in February on representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/31/news/fortune500/walmart/
Wal-Mart Honors African-American History
By Press Release: Walmart
Jan 31, 2005, 18:58
During the month of February, Wal-Mart once again presents a nationwide program in celebration of Black History Month. For the fifth consecutive year, Wal-Mart shoppers will have the chance to take home free copies of unique, inspiring and educational publications for entire families to enjoy and treasure.
http://www.urbanmecca.com/artman/publish/article_212.shtml
Wal-Mart zoning gets first denial
By YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/02/05
Wal-Mart's request to rezone almost 64 acres in northwest Cobb County was rejected Tuesday at its first public hearing by the county's Planning Commission.
The retail giant wants to construct a Supercenter store and seven two-story office buildings on North Cobb Parkway, near the Paulding and Bartow county lines. The total size of the development would be 330,586 square feet.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/0205/02walmart.html
Feb. 15 meeting: Is Wal-Mart good for C.O.?
Jobs with Justice video presentation Feb. 15 at the Grove
From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:37 PM
Reference Code: PR-20931
February 1 - "Is Wal-Mart Good for Central Oregon?" is the focus of a video presentation and community discussion scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 15, at the Grove, 1033 NW Bond Street, Bend. The meeting is being organized by Central Oregon Jobs with Justice, a labor-community coalition of 200 local residents and 18 organizations
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D20931.htm
Wal-Mart Begins RFID Process Changes
The retailer has started deploying new applications and implementing new procedures aimed at using RFID data to reduce out-of-stocks.
By Mark Roberti
Feb. 1, 2005—Wal-Mart has begun rolling out the first applications and process changes based on radio frequency identification data at the original seven Wal-Mart stores in Texas that were outfitted with RFID readers. The aim of the applications is to reduce out-of-stocks by providing visibility into the location of goods with RFID tags.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1385/1/1/
Even in Wal-Mart world, local identity runs deep
By Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff February 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The announcement last week of Procter & Gamble's agreement to take over Gillette provoked a rush of disappointment in Boston over the loss of another emblem of local identity. But it also highlighted one of the most intriguing paradoxes of recent decades: At a time when ''signature" companies in almost every part of the country are merging into nationwide conglomerates, regional identity only grows stronger.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/02/01/even_in_wal_mart_world_local_identity_runs_deep/
Newspaper: Wal-Mart's Asda Bids $940 Million for UK Retailer
2/1/05 11:35:47 AM
By Arkansas Business staff, Arkansasbusiness.com Daily Report
London's Telegraph newspaper reported this week that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., through its United Kingdom subsidiary Asda, has made an unsolicited bid to buy Littlewoods Stores for $940 million.
http://arkansasbusiness.com/news/headline_article.asp?aid=39819
Unicoi County Welcomes Wal-Mart
Erica Estep
News Channel 11
Feb 2, 6:15 PM EST
A small Tri-Cities town is ready for some extra traffic if a new Wal-Mart Supercenter moves in.
The retail giant is looking at a site in Unicoi County at the Tinker Road exit off Interstate 26.
http://www.wjhl.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=TRI/MGArticle/TRI_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780604515&path=Variables.path
Residents Gear Up For Meeting On Proposed Wal-Mart
POSTED: 4:47 pm EST February 2, 2005
NORTH CORNWALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Some residents in southern Lebanon County are gearing up for a hearing Thursday morning on a proposed Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart has submitted plans to build a new super center on a tract of land between Route 72 and Cornwall Road in North Cornwall Township.
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/money/4157272/detail.html
Wal-Mart public hearings slated
THELMA GRIMES
News-Sun
One week after the city's Planning and Zoning Commission is set to vote on a Wal-Mart rezoning request, the Benson City Council will host a public hearing.
http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2005/02/02/news/news2.txt
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The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?
From: Issue 77 December 2003, Page 68 By: Charles Fishman Photographs by: Livia Corona
A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
Wal-Mart Estimates Rise in January Sales
Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. predicts January sales for its U.S. stores will increase 2 percent to 4 percent compared to January 2004.
The world's largest retailer provided its estimate for same-store sales - stores open for at least a year - for the four-weeks ending Friday in its weekly sales update.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/financial_markets/10715977.htm
Tracking Wal-Mart
January 23, 2005
Last we knew: The city of Lafayette, fearing Wal-Mart would close its aging store in town, offered the retail giant $2.3 million in incentives to buy land on the west side of U.S. 287 between Baseline and Arapahoe roads, which could be used as a site for a larger supercenter store.
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/lafayette_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2425_3491829,00.html
Wal-Mart arguments
January 23, 2005
Pay
Against: The company pays employees poorly.
For: Wal-Mart's 1.2 million sales associates earn an average of $9.68 an hour
Insurance
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/county_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2423_3491791,00.html
Heed lesson of Wal-Mart: know plans for the land
By HOWARD TROXLER, Times Columnist
Published January 23, 2005
When did our commission lose the power to say no?
- Christopher Still, Tarpon Springs artist and Wal-Mart opponent
This past Tuesday evening in Tarpon Springs, as many as 400 people gathered for a showdown before the City Commission about allowing a Wal-Mart supercenter on the east side of U.S. 19, on the south side of the Anclote River.
Wal-Mart won.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/23/Columns/Heed_lesson_of_Wal_Ma.shtml
Wal-Mart Abduction Suspect Awaits Extradition Hearing
The man arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing a Tyler Wal-Mart cashier is still in Arizona. He's awaiting an extradition hearing that could come as soon as tomorrow.
Johnny Lee Williams, Jr., 24, of Tyler, sits in a jail cell in Cochise County. He was arrested at a hospital there, after getting treated for a gunshot wound he suffered during a failed robbery attempt.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2851165&nav=1TjDVYNZ
Wal-Mart Sticks to January Guidance
By TSC Staff
1/24/2005 7:28 AM EST
Wal-Mart (WMT:NYSE - news - research) stuck to previous guidance for January sales, saying food receipts should offset the late arrival of the Super Bowl in 2005.
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Wal-Mart predicts sales increase
By The Associated Press
Bentonville, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. predicts January sales for its U.S. stores will increase 2 percent to 4 percent compared to January 2004.
The world's largest retailer provided its estimate for same-store sales — stores open for at least a year — for the four weeks ending Friday in its weekly sales update.
http://springfield.news-leader.com/business/today/0124-WalMartpre-286338.html
When new neighbor is Wal-Mart
Elizabeth Anderson knows well how new development can change a neighborhood.
Fifteen years ago she and her family lived on the quiet east end of Water Street. The rarely traveled dirt road was ideal for her children because they could easily cross the street to neighbors’ houses without her worrying about them.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2068&dept_id=387467&newsid=13810728&PAG=461&rfi=9
Wal-Mart expects 2%-4% sales increase
Wal-Mart Stores expects a 2%-4% increase in January sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year.
http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2005/01/24/daily5.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Wal-Mart has an ear for iPod market
Published: January 31, 2005, 6:45 PM PST
By Alorie Gilbert and Ina Fried
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Wal-Mart Stores has quietly begun selling Apple Computer's popular iPod Minis in select stores, the mega retailer's first big move into the market for the enormously popular digital music players.
The discount chain is selling Minis in a "limited number of stores," a Wal-Mart representative said Monday. The representative declined to elaborate on how many of the company's nearly 5,000 stores are carrying the device.
http://news.com.com/Wal-Mart+has+an+ear+for+iPod+market/2100-1041_3-5558041.html
Report: Wal-Mart bids for Littlewoods
By Dan Burrows, MarketWatch
Last Update: 4:11 PM ET Jan. 31, 2005
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Wal-Mart Stores' U.K.-based Asda subsidiary made an unsolicited bid for Littlewoods Stores, according to a published report.
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Wal-Mart's (WMT: news, chart, profile) Asda business offered 500 million pounds ($944 million) for the 186-store British retail chain, the Telegraph reported Sunday.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B51A61B27-CC30-4674-BDD7-CA4935B657F8%7D&siteid=google&dist=google
First labor union at Wal-Mart?
Employees at a Colorado store have been granted approval by NLRB to hold a union election.
January 31, 2005: 1:44 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNN) - Employees at a Colorado Wal-Mart tire and auto maintenance shop have been granted approval to hold a union election that could create the first ever organized labor group at the country's biggest retailer.
Workers at the Loveland, Colo., Wal-Mart Tire & Lube Express are expected to vote in February on representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/31/news/fortune500/walmart/
Wal-Mart Honors African-American History
By Press Release: Walmart
Jan 31, 2005, 18:58
During the month of February, Wal-Mart once again presents a nationwide program in celebration of Black History Month. For the fifth consecutive year, Wal-Mart shoppers will have the chance to take home free copies of unique, inspiring and educational publications for entire families to enjoy and treasure.
http://www.urbanmecca.com/artman/publish/article_212.shtml
Wal-Mart zoning gets first denial
By YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/02/05
Wal-Mart's request to rezone almost 64 acres in northwest Cobb County was rejected Tuesday at its first public hearing by the county's Planning Commission.
The retail giant wants to construct a Supercenter store and seven two-story office buildings on North Cobb Parkway, near the Paulding and Bartow county lines. The total size of the development would be 330,586 square feet.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/0205/02walmart.html
Feb. 15 meeting: Is Wal-Mart good for C.O.?
Jobs with Justice video presentation Feb. 15 at the Grove
From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:37 PM
Reference Code: PR-20931
February 1 - "Is Wal-Mart Good for Central Oregon?" is the focus of a video presentation and community discussion scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 15, at the Grove, 1033 NW Bond Street, Bend. The meeting is being organized by Central Oregon Jobs with Justice, a labor-community coalition of 200 local residents and 18 organizations
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D20931.htm
Wal-Mart Begins RFID Process Changes
The retailer has started deploying new applications and implementing new procedures aimed at using RFID data to reduce out-of-stocks.
By Mark Roberti
Feb. 1, 2005—Wal-Mart has begun rolling out the first applications and process changes based on radio frequency identification data at the original seven Wal-Mart stores in Texas that were outfitted with RFID readers. The aim of the applications is to reduce out-of-stocks by providing visibility into the location of goods with RFID tags.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1385/1/1/
Even in Wal-Mart world, local identity runs deep
By Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff February 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The announcement last week of Procter & Gamble's agreement to take over Gillette provoked a rush of disappointment in Boston over the loss of another emblem of local identity. But it also highlighted one of the most intriguing paradoxes of recent decades: At a time when ''signature" companies in almost every part of the country are merging into nationwide conglomerates, regional identity only grows stronger.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/02/01/even_in_wal_mart_world_local_identity_runs_deep/
Newspaper: Wal-Mart's Asda Bids $940 Million for UK Retailer
2/1/05 11:35:47 AM
By Arkansas Business staff, Arkansasbusiness.com Daily Report
London's Telegraph newspaper reported this week that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., through its United Kingdom subsidiary Asda, has made an unsolicited bid to buy Littlewoods Stores for $940 million.
http://arkansasbusiness.com/news/headline_article.asp?aid=39819
Unicoi County Welcomes Wal-Mart
Erica Estep
News Channel 11
Feb 2, 6:15 PM EST
A small Tri-Cities town is ready for some extra traffic if a new Wal-Mart Supercenter moves in.
The retail giant is looking at a site in Unicoi County at the Tinker Road exit off Interstate 26.
http://www.wjhl.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=TRI/MGArticle/TRI_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780604515&path=Variables.path
Residents Gear Up For Meeting On Proposed Wal-Mart
POSTED: 4:47 pm EST February 2, 2005
NORTH CORNWALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Some residents in southern Lebanon County are gearing up for a hearing Thursday morning on a proposed Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart has submitted plans to build a new super center on a tract of land between Route 72 and Cornwall Road in North Cornwall Township.
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/money/4157272/detail.html
Wal-Mart public hearings slated
THELMA GRIMES
News-Sun
One week after the city's Planning and Zoning Commission is set to vote on a Wal-Mart rezoning request, the Benson City Council will host a public hearing.
http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2005/02/02/news/news2.txt
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Wal-Mart Thefts
News Channel 11 Staff
TriCities.com
Feb 2, 5:17 PM EST
A man and woman from Bristol, Virginia have been arrested for stealing merchandise from the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Lee Highway.
http://www.bristolnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=TRI/MGArticle/TRI_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031780601838&path=Variables.path
Wal-Mart, a second Walgreens in works for Penn Hills
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
By Judy Laurinatis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Walgreens stores and a Super Wal-Mart may soon be on the Penn Hills commercial landscape.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05033/451140.stm
Residents wary of Wal-Mart expansion
By YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/06/05
The Wal-Mart on Johnson Ferry Road wants to be bigger.
But so far, residents living near the store are not convinced that a super-sized Wal-Mart — the company wants to add 50,100 square feet — is what their neighborhoods need or want. Residents are scheduled to meet with company officials on Feb. 18 to discuss the plans.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/0205/06supersize.html
Wal-Mart pulls back; family buys U.S. 72 site
Walkers promise to protect house, historic cemetery
Friday, February 04, 2005
By MARIAN ACCARDI
Times Business Writer accardi@htimes.com
Wal-Mart has backed off plans to build a new supercenter on U.S. 72 East at the base of Chapman Mountain and is looking at other locations in the Huntsville area.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1107512103231160.xml
Wal-Mart Supercenter coming to Ottawa
Store will anchor 80-acre mall
By JONATHAN BILYK — For The Times-Press
A Wal-Mart Supercenter will anchor Ottawa’s new proposed North Side shopping center.
Tuesday, Mayor Robert Eschbach announced that the world’s largest retailer will become the first and likely the largest retail tenant for the planned Ottawa Centre development.
http://www.times-press.com/newsmain.php?storyid=10877
Young entrepreneur wiggles his way into Wal-Mart
By MARINA STRAUSS
RETAILING REPORTER
Friday, February 4, 2005, Page B1
Thomas Szaky shocked his parents a few years ago when he decided to drop out of Princeton University to start a business making plant food. To their dismay, he explained that the product came from worm poop.
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Wal-Mart sees Feb. sales up 2%-4%
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:16 PM ET Feb. 5, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Wal-Mart on Saturday said it expects same-store sales at its U.S. stores to increase between 2 percent and 4 percent during February.
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Wal-Mart's (WMT: news, chart, profile) sales figures for the month should get a boost from Sunday's Super Bowl, as consumers pick up party items like snacks, beverages and decorations to watch the country's biggest annual sporting event.
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Wal-Mart foes launch petition drive
Residents group hopes to sway council, says retailer is bad fit
12:55 PM CST on Saturday, February 5, 2005
By MIKKI KIRBY / The Dallas Morning News
Highland Village residents outraged by the City Council's approval of a Wal-Mart Supercenter as part of a larger development are taking steps to overturn that decision.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/020506dndenwalmart.ee76.html
Critics appeal Union County permit for Wal-Mart
County, residents file appeal of special-use license for supercenter
HOWIE PAUL HARTNETT
Staff Writer
Union County and residents against a proposed Wal-Mart will appeal a local board's decision to give the retail giant one of the two permits it needs to build a 206,000-square-foot building off Rea Road.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10826100.htm
Wal-Mart: NLRB ORDERS UNION RECOGNITION VOTE AT COLO. WAL-MART AUTO SERVICE DEPTS.
NLRB ORDERS UNION RECOGNITION VOTE AT COLO. WAL-MART AUTO SERVICE DEPTS.
By Mark Gruenberg, PAI, ILCA Member
LOVELAND, Colo. (PAI)--The United Food and Commercial Workers will get another shot at breaking through Wal-Mart’s anti-union blockade in the U.S., when 20 workers in its two auto service departments in the Loveland, Colo., supercenter vote on representation by the union’s Local 7.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1736&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
TYLER WAL-MART EVACUATED
AFTER BOMB THREAT
By: Staff
February 05, 2005
The Wal-Mart Supercenter at Texas Highway 64 West and Loop 323 was evacuated at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday.
Don Martin, Tyler Police Department public information officer, said the store had received a bomb threat.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13899874&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=227937&rfi=6
Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings
Posted by timothy on Fri Feb 04, '05 10:28 PM
from the cheap-at-the-price dept.
startleman writes "A story on Tom's Hardware reports that Walmart apparently will offer a Linare-equipped notebook below the $500 mark. Manufacturer Linare said that it will bring a Linux-based device to the retailer 'within the next few days.' Specs include an AMD Athlon 1800+, a 40 GByte harddrive, 128 MByte memory, a CD-ROM drive, an Ethernet port and the firm's Linare OS as well as Open Office."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/05/0032255&from=rss
Wal-Mart To Close Store In Canada With a Union
By IAN AUSTEN (NYT) 580 words
Late Edition - Final , Section C , Page 3 , Column 1
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 580 WORDS - Wal-Mart Canada, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, said on Wednesday that it would close a store in Quebec where unionized workers are attempting to negotiate the first collective agreement in North America with the company ... A spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, Andrew Pelletier, said the store in Jonquière, Quebec, would...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D14F93D5E0C738DDDAB0894DD404482
Foes Dig In As Wal-Mart Aims for City
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE (NYT) 1609 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1
Correction Appended
ABSTRACT - Wal-Mart's plan to open its first New York City store, in Rego Park, Queens, is expected to spark biggest battle against single store in city's history; it is opposed by small businesses, union leaders, City Council members and even some mayoral candidates;
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E1EF73D5E0C738DDDAB0894DD404482
Wal-Mart still wants to help Daiei
By Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo
Published: February 9 2005 22:12 Last updated: February 9 2005 22:12
Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, on Wednesday said that it still wanted to participate in the rescue of Daiei, Japan's third-largest retailer, which is being restructured by a government-owned turnround body.
Although Wal-Mart was eliminated from a shortlist of consortia bidding to become the lead investorin the rehabilitation of Daiei, Jeff McAllister, the chief operating officer of the company's Japanese operations, said: “It was a disappointment but I think the process was fair. We think we have a solution and we'll see how that progresses.”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0c369e3e-7abd-11d9-a8c9-00000e2511c8.html
Quebec Unions Call for Wal-Mart Boycott
Thu Feb 10, 2005 04:37 PM ET
By Martin Croteau
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Unions for thousands workers in northern Quebec have urged a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) over its plans to close a store that last year became North America's first unionized Wal-Mart.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7598829
Wal-Mart's Clean Bill of Health?
The retailer says its own survey refutes charges that many workers rely on Medicaid. Nonsense, say critics, who want to see the full data
For years, critics have accused Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, of pushing employees into federal and state health-care programs and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the retailer's low-cost operations. Now, as part of a sweeping campaign to improve its image, Wal-Mart (WMT ) is fighting back by releasing the results of a of new survey about its employees' health-care coverage.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf20050210_3996_db016.htm
Wal-Mart debate sparks another late night
By:, Sarah Piland
02/10/2005
Highland Village City Council met last night and on the agenda was the second and final reading on the variation to the Market Overlay District plan, which if approved, would include a Wal-Mart Super Center as the main anchor.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13934121&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528199&rfi=6
Wal-Mart talks should have been public
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2005
CRIPPLE CREEK — A judge said the Woodland Park City Council violated the state’s open meeting laws by meeting in secret to discuss a proposed Wal-Mart but concluded they had made a mistake.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050210/NEWS/50210001
Panel proposes changes that could lead to Wal-Mart supercenter
Associated Press
ABERDEEN, S.D. - The city planning commission has recommended changing part of the city's development code to clear the way for a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10865796.htm
Wal-Mart Chief Defends Closing Unionized Store
Scott Says Labor Costs Guided Quebec Decision
By Michael Barbaro
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005; Page E01
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union, saying demands from negotiators would have forced an already unprofitable store to hire 30 more people and abide by inefficient work rules.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15832-2005Feb10.html
Wal-Mart debate sparks another late night
By:, Sarah Piland
02/10/2005
Highland Village City Council met last night and on the agenda was the second and final reading on the variation to the Market Overlay District plan, which if approved, would include a Wal-Mart Super Center as the main anchor.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13934121&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528199&rfi=6
Wal-Mart talks should have been public
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2005
CRIPPLE CREEK — A judge said the Woodland Park City Council violated the state’s open meeting laws by meeting in secret to discuss a proposed Wal-Mart but concluded they had made a mistake.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050210/NEWS/50210001
Panel proposes changes that could lead to Wal-Mart supercenter
Associated Press
ABERDEEN, S.D. - The city planning commission has recommended changing part of the city's development code to clear the way for a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10865796.htm
Families still disagree on Wal-Mart reburial
By Vicki Viotti
Advertiser Staff Writer
A week before the scheduled reburial of Native Hawaiian bones unearthed during construction of the Wal-Mart complex, descendants remain at odds over when and how the estimated 44 to 50 sets of remains will be reinterred.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/10/ln/ln18p.html
Boycott wouldn't surprise: Wal-Mart
By CP
MONTREAL -- Wal-Mart Canada anticipates a union-supported boycott of its stores after it announced the closure of a unionized Quebec store, a spokesman with the retail giant said yesterday.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Business/2005/02/11/927650-sun.html
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Union to fight Wal-Mart closing
Legal battles, national boycott of stores possible
Retail giant says it will shut its first unionized store
DANA FLAVELLE
BUSINESS REPORTER
Wal-Mart Canada Corp.'s decision to close its first unionized store could spark a protracted legal battle, a possible national boycott, and the retailer could be forced to re-open the store, the high-powered lawyer for the union says.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1108075812381&call_pageid=970599119419
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Wal-Mart Chief Defends Closing Unionized Store
Scott Says Labor Costs Guided Quebec Decision
By Michael Barbaro
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005; Page E01
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union, saying demands from negotiators would have forced an already unprofitable store to hire 30 more people and abide by inefficient work rules.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15832-2005Feb10.html
Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Trustee seeks meeting with Wal-Mart CEO
Leitenberger wants to discuss connector road
By David Benson, dbenson@nncogannett.com
News Journal
MANSFIELD -- A Washington Township trustee wants to meet with the CEO of Wal-Mart.
Kay Leitenberger told the Richland County commissioners Thursday Wal-Mart should pay for a connector road between Ohio 13 and O'Possum Run Road near the site where a Wal-Mart supercenter will be built this year.
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/news/stories/20050211/localnews/1979042.html
Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Wal-Mart's Canadian Union to File Complaint After Store Closure
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers' Canadian arm said it plans to file a complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for bargaining in bad faith after the retailer said it would close its first unionized outlet in North America.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a6Tx9lrK4_Gw&refer=canada
Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Wal-Mart settles child labour cases
Associated Press
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Washington — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, will pay $135,540 (U.S.) to settle federal charges that it broke child labor laws, the Labor Department said Saturday.
The 24 violations, which occurred at stores in Arkansas, Connecticut and New Hampshire, had to do with teenage workers who used hazardous equipment such as a chain saw, paper balers and fork lifts.
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Granby Wal-Mart receives bomb threat
Canadian Press
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Granby, Que. — A Wal-Mart store in this city about 80 kilometres east of Montreal was evacuated Saturday after police received a noon-hour bomb threat.
Mr. Granby police spokesman Lieut. Louis Gregoire said no suspicious objects were found, but the store remained closed as police continued to check the area following the anonymous 9-1-1 call that came in around 12:30 p.m.
It's the third store to receive such a threat in two days.
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Union weighs public boycott of Wal-Mart
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Montreal — The bitter conflict pitting unionized workers in the remote Quebec town of Jonquière against Wal-Mart reached a flashpoint yesterday as labour leaders vowed to ratchet up their fight against the U.S. retail colossus and bomb threats forced the evacuation of two of its stores in Gatineau.
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Wal-Mart Says Feb. Same-Store Sales Rising Within Its Forecast
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said February sales at U.S. stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aZCurQW4AR3o&refer=top_world_news
Wal-Mart to appeal union decision in Saint-Hyacinthe
Last Updated Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:21:17 EST
CBC News
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. - Wal-Mart Canada says it will appeal a provincial decision to unionize its store in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., CBC News has learned.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/13/walmart-quebec050213.html
Albion eyes huge Wal-Mart
Public will speak today on plan for a new commercial district
Meaghan M. McDermott
Staff writer
(February 13, 2005) — ALBION — The public on Monday will weigh in on whether the Town Board should rezone agricultural land on Route 31 to make way for a new commercial district that would include a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/NEWS01/502130330/1002/NEWS
Loveland tire shop takes on Wal-Mart to unionize
By KIRSTEN ORSINI-MEINHARD
KirstenOrsini@coloradoan.com
No one's quite sure who brought it up first.
Likely it was a couple of disgruntled workers who didn't know what they were getting into.
All Wal-Mart employee Alan Johnson can remember is that someone cried "union" and suddenly the Tire & Lube Express department in Lake Elsinore, Calif., was thrown into a years-long battle with the company that no one was prepared for.
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/BUSINESS/502130307/1046
Nashua doesn’t need Wal-Mart super store
George Skuse, Nashua
Published: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005
Having just read Mark Dennison’s letter of Feb. 10 regarding the value of yet another Wal-Mart in the area, I can only say “bull pucky.”
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/OPINION02/102130006/-1/opinion
When size matters at Wal-Mart
By Matthew Davies
BBC World Service business reporter
Wal-Mart dwarfs its rivals in the retail business
The cash tills at any one of Wal-Mart's giant retail stores are rarely quiet.
Customers bought more than $284bn (£153bn) worth of goods from the world's largest retailer in the year to the end of January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4253981.stm
Montana Debates Special Tax on Wal-Mart, Others
Mon Feb 14, 2005 02:14 PM ET
By Laura Zuckerman
MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - Montana's state legislature is targeting the big-box megastores that have taken the place of the old Western general store, weighing a special tax to offset welfare costs for low-paid employees of the retailers.
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7624289
Wal-Mart: Secret Deal With Wal-Mart on Labor Violations Needs Investigating
Secret Deal With Wal-Mart on Labor Violations Needs Investigating
By Office of Congressman George Miller
So-called ‘compliance agreement’ gives preferential treatment to major Republican donor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After disclosure of a secret agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and Wal-Mart giving the giant retailer the authority to conduct its own investigations of employee wage and hour complaints, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) today requested an investigation by the DOL’s Inspector General to determine whether the arrangement represents a sweetheart deal between the Bush Administration and one of the nation’s most frequent violators of labor laws.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1818&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Keep Wal-Mart out of the neighborhood
Feb 10, 2005
February 14, 2005
You've heard that a rich guy named Jones wants to move into your modest middle-class neighborhood.
He plans to build a house that's at least four times as big as any of the other houses, and he has a reputation for being mean to the female members of his household, for paying low wages to his help, forcing them to work overtime without pay, and even locking them in the house when he goes out.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpmcc144145015feb14,0,2742070.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines
Wal-Mart Supercenter Gets Green Light in Fairfield
Mayor Hopes Business Will Drive Development
POSTED: 7:34 pm CST February 14, 2005
FAIRFIELD, Ala. -- A project five years in the works is finally a reality for the city of Fairfield: a Wal-Mart Supercenter has been given the green light.
http://www.nbc13.com/news/4197120/detail.html
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Announces Total Charitable Giving for 2004 Exceeded $170 Million; Touched 100,000 Organizations
Tuesday February 15, 3:15 pm ET
Largest Corporate Cash Giving Foundation in U.S. Focuses on Local Giving, Children and Community Efforts
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With more than 90 percent of its charitable giving targeted at local communities, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT - News) today announced that for its fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2005, cash donations through Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and the Wal-Mart & SAM'S CLUB Foundation exceeded a record $170 million.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050215/datu054_1.html
Dow Industrial Stocks Fall in Europe; Home Depot, Wal-Mart Drop
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retail stocks such as Home Depot Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. slid in Europe in advance of a government report economists expect to show falling U.S. retail sales. Stock-index futures were little changed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aZZeFHpk7Jas&refer=us
Wal-Mart praises its workers in Quebec newspaper ads
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, Page B15
Wal-Mart Canada Corp. took out a full-page ad in several Quebec newspapers yesterday, telling its employees they are the "cornerstone" of the company.
The retail giant's move came after its decision last week to close a Quebec store where unionized employees were seeking a first collective agreement.
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Big Bargains at Wal-Mart
By Will Swarts Published: February 15, 2005
AS WINTER SLOWLY STARTS to turn the corner to spring, American thoughts inevitably turn to hopping in the car and loading up on lots of inexpensive stuff.
That's excellent news for retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which releases its fourth-quarter results on Thursday before the opening bell. Buoyed by Tuesday's Department of Commerce report on improved January retail sales figures, America's largest retailer is expected to meet — or beat — Wall Street's 74 cents a share estimate for its final quarter, ended Jan. 31. That's up 17% from the same period last year, and consensus estimates suggest year-end earnings per share of $2.40, an 18% increase from last year.
http://www.smartmoney.com/stockwatch/index.cfm?story=20050215&hpadref=1
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News Channel 11 Staff
TriCities.com
Feb 2, 5:17 PM EST
A man and woman from Bristol, Virginia have been arrested for stealing merchandise from the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Lee Highway.
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Wal-Mart, a second Walgreens in works for Penn Hills
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
By Judy Laurinatis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Walgreens stores and a Super Wal-Mart may soon be on the Penn Hills commercial landscape.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05033/451140.stm
Residents wary of Wal-Mart expansion
By YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/06/05
The Wal-Mart on Johnson Ferry Road wants to be bigger.
But so far, residents living near the store are not convinced that a super-sized Wal-Mart — the company wants to add 50,100 square feet — is what their neighborhoods need or want. Residents are scheduled to meet with company officials on Feb. 18 to discuss the plans.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/0205/06supersize.html
Wal-Mart pulls back; family buys U.S. 72 site
Walkers promise to protect house, historic cemetery
Friday, February 04, 2005
By MARIAN ACCARDI
Times Business Writer accardi@htimes.com
Wal-Mart has backed off plans to build a new supercenter on U.S. 72 East at the base of Chapman Mountain and is looking at other locations in the Huntsville area.
http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1107512103231160.xml
Wal-Mart Supercenter coming to Ottawa
Store will anchor 80-acre mall
By JONATHAN BILYK — For The Times-Press
A Wal-Mart Supercenter will anchor Ottawa’s new proposed North Side shopping center.
Tuesday, Mayor Robert Eschbach announced that the world’s largest retailer will become the first and likely the largest retail tenant for the planned Ottawa Centre development.
http://www.times-press.com/newsmain.php?storyid=10877
Young entrepreneur wiggles his way into Wal-Mart
By MARINA STRAUSS
RETAILING REPORTER
Friday, February 4, 2005, Page B1
Thomas Szaky shocked his parents a few years ago when he decided to drop out of Princeton University to start a business making plant food. To their dismay, he explained that the product came from worm poop.
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Wal-Mart sees Feb. sales up 2%-4%
By Carla Mozee, MarketWatch
Last Update: 1:16 PM ET Feb. 5, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Wal-Mart on Saturday said it expects same-store sales at its U.S. stores to increase between 2 percent and 4 percent during February.
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Wal-Mart's (WMT: news, chart, profile) sales figures for the month should get a boost from Sunday's Super Bowl, as consumers pick up party items like snacks, beverages and decorations to watch the country's biggest annual sporting event.
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Wal-Mart foes launch petition drive
Residents group hopes to sway council, says retailer is bad fit
12:55 PM CST on Saturday, February 5, 2005
By MIKKI KIRBY / The Dallas Morning News
Highland Village residents outraged by the City Council's approval of a Wal-Mart Supercenter as part of a larger development are taking steps to overturn that decision.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/020506dndenwalmart.ee76.html
Critics appeal Union County permit for Wal-Mart
County, residents file appeal of special-use license for supercenter
HOWIE PAUL HARTNETT
Staff Writer
Union County and residents against a proposed Wal-Mart will appeal a local board's decision to give the retail giant one of the two permits it needs to build a 206,000-square-foot building off Rea Road.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/10826100.htm
Wal-Mart: NLRB ORDERS UNION RECOGNITION VOTE AT COLO. WAL-MART AUTO SERVICE DEPTS.
NLRB ORDERS UNION RECOGNITION VOTE AT COLO. WAL-MART AUTO SERVICE DEPTS.
By Mark Gruenberg, PAI, ILCA Member
LOVELAND, Colo. (PAI)--The United Food and Commercial Workers will get another shot at breaking through Wal-Mart’s anti-union blockade in the U.S., when 20 workers in its two auto service departments in the Loveland, Colo., supercenter vote on representation by the union’s Local 7.
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TYLER WAL-MART EVACUATED
AFTER BOMB THREAT
By: Staff
February 05, 2005
The Wal-Mart Supercenter at Texas Highway 64 West and Loop 323 was evacuated at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday.
Don Martin, Tyler Police Department public information officer, said the store had received a bomb threat.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13899874&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=227937&rfi=6
Walmart Expands Low-End Linux Notebook Offerings
Posted by timothy on Fri Feb 04, '05 10:28 PM
from the cheap-at-the-price dept.
startleman writes "A story on Tom's Hardware reports that Walmart apparently will offer a Linare-equipped notebook below the $500 mark. Manufacturer Linare said that it will bring a Linux-based device to the retailer 'within the next few days.' Specs include an AMD Athlon 1800+, a 40 GByte harddrive, 128 MByte memory, a CD-ROM drive, an Ethernet port and the firm's Linare OS as well as Open Office."
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/05/0032255&from=rss
Wal-Mart To Close Store In Canada With a Union
By IAN AUSTEN (NYT) 580 words
Late Edition - Final , Section C , Page 3 , Column 1
DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 580 WORDS - Wal-Mart Canada, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, said on Wednesday that it would close a store in Quebec where unionized workers are attempting to negotiate the first collective agreement in North America with the company ... A spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, Andrew Pelletier, said the store in Jonquière, Quebec, would...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D14F93D5E0C738DDDAB0894DD404482
Foes Dig In As Wal-Mart Aims for City
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE (NYT) 1609 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1
Correction Appended
ABSTRACT - Wal-Mart's plan to open its first New York City store, in Rego Park, Queens, is expected to spark biggest battle against single store in city's history; it is opposed by small businesses, union leaders, City Council members and even some mayoral candidates;
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E1EF73D5E0C738DDDAB0894DD404482
Wal-Mart still wants to help Daiei
By Mariko Sanchanta in Tokyo
Published: February 9 2005 22:12 Last updated: February 9 2005 22:12
Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, on Wednesday said that it still wanted to participate in the rescue of Daiei, Japan's third-largest retailer, which is being restructured by a government-owned turnround body.
Although Wal-Mart was eliminated from a shortlist of consortia bidding to become the lead investorin the rehabilitation of Daiei, Jeff McAllister, the chief operating officer of the company's Japanese operations, said: “It was a disappointment but I think the process was fair. We think we have a solution and we'll see how that progresses.”
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0c369e3e-7abd-11d9-a8c9-00000e2511c8.html
Quebec Unions Call for Wal-Mart Boycott
Thu Feb 10, 2005 04:37 PM ET
By Martin Croteau
QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Unions for thousands workers in northern Quebec have urged a boycott of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) over its plans to close a store that last year became North America's first unionized Wal-Mart.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7598829
Wal-Mart's Clean Bill of Health?
The retailer says its own survey refutes charges that many workers rely on Medicaid. Nonsense, say critics, who want to see the full data
For years, critics have accused Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, of pushing employees into federal and state health-care programs and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the retailer's low-cost operations. Now, as part of a sweeping campaign to improve its image, Wal-Mart (WMT ) is fighting back by releasing the results of a of new survey about its employees' health-care coverage.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2005/nf20050210_3996_db016.htm
Wal-Mart debate sparks another late night
By:, Sarah Piland
02/10/2005
Highland Village City Council met last night and on the agenda was the second and final reading on the variation to the Market Overlay District plan, which if approved, would include a Wal-Mart Super Center as the main anchor.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13934121&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528199&rfi=6
Wal-Mart talks should have been public
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2005
CRIPPLE CREEK — A judge said the Woodland Park City Council violated the state’s open meeting laws by meeting in secret to discuss a proposed Wal-Mart but concluded they had made a mistake.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050210/NEWS/50210001
Panel proposes changes that could lead to Wal-Mart supercenter
Associated Press
ABERDEEN, S.D. - The city planning commission has recommended changing part of the city's development code to clear the way for a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10865796.htm
Wal-Mart Chief Defends Closing Unionized Store
Scott Says Labor Costs Guided Quebec Decision
By Michael Barbaro
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005; Page E01
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union, saying demands from negotiators would have forced an already unprofitable store to hire 30 more people and abide by inefficient work rules.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15832-2005Feb10.html
Wal-Mart debate sparks another late night
By:, Sarah Piland
02/10/2005
Highland Village City Council met last night and on the agenda was the second and final reading on the variation to the Market Overlay District plan, which if approved, would include a Wal-Mart Super Center as the main anchor.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13934121&BRD=1426&PAG=461&dept_id=528199&rfi=6
Wal-Mart talks should have been public
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 10, 2005
CRIPPLE CREEK — A judge said the Woodland Park City Council violated the state’s open meeting laws by meeting in secret to discuss a proposed Wal-Mart but concluded they had made a mistake.
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050210/NEWS/50210001
Panel proposes changes that could lead to Wal-Mart supercenter
Associated Press
ABERDEEN, S.D. - The city planning commission has recommended changing part of the city's development code to clear the way for a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10865796.htm
Families still disagree on Wal-Mart reburial
By Vicki Viotti
Advertiser Staff Writer
A week before the scheduled reburial of Native Hawaiian bones unearthed during construction of the Wal-Mart complex, descendants remain at odds over when and how the estimated 44 to 50 sets of remains will be reinterred.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/10/ln/ln18p.html
Boycott wouldn't surprise: Wal-Mart
By CP
MONTREAL -- Wal-Mart Canada anticipates a union-supported boycott of its stores after it announced the closure of a unionized Quebec store, a spokesman with the retail giant said yesterday.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Business/2005/02/11/927650-sun.html
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Union to fight Wal-Mart closing
Legal battles, national boycott of stores possible
Retail giant says it will shut its first unionized store
DANA FLAVELLE
BUSINESS REPORTER
Wal-Mart Canada Corp.'s decision to close its first unionized store could spark a protracted legal battle, a possible national boycott, and the retailer could be forced to re-open the store, the high-powered lawyer for the union says.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1108075812381&call_pageid=970599119419
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Wal-Mart Chief Defends Closing Unionized Store
Scott Says Labor Costs Guided Quebec Decision
By Michael Barbaro
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 11, 2005; Page E01
The chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. yesterday defended the retailer's decision to close a Canadian store after its employees voted to form a union, saying demands from negotiators would have forced an already unprofitable store to hire 30 more people and abide by inefficient work rules.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15832-2005Feb10.html
Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Trustee seeks meeting with Wal-Mart CEO
Leitenberger wants to discuss connector road
By David Benson, dbenson@nncogannett.com
News Journal
MANSFIELD -- A Washington Township trustee wants to meet with the CEO of Wal-Mart.
Kay Leitenberger told the Richland County commissioners Thursday Wal-Mart should pay for a connector road between Ohio 13 and O'Possum Run Road near the site where a Wal-Mart supercenter will be built this year.
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/news/stories/20050211/localnews/1979042.html
Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Wal-Mart's Canadian Union to File Complaint After Store Closure
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The United Food and Commercial Workers' Canadian arm said it plans to file a complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for bargaining in bad faith after the retailer said it would close its first unionized outlet in North America.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a6Tx9lrK4_Gw&refer=canada
Council looks to keep Wal-Mart out
BY LAUREN WEBER
STAFF WRITER
February 11, 2005
City Council members promised yesterday to seek legislative ways to keep Wal-Mart away, or to make it so inconvenient for the giant retailer that it abandons plans to enter the city.
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzlabo114141423feb11,0,2925933.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
Unionized Wal-Mart employees fear second Quebec store to shut
By INGRID PERITZ
With reports from Rhéal Séguin in Quebec City and from Reuters
Friday, February 11, 2005, Page A7
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. -- There were shrugs of resignation in the housewares aisle and whispers of fear over in sporting goods. Wal-Mart, a store known for its greeters, yellow smiley faces and the famous Wal-Mart cheer, was not an especially happy place yesterday.
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Wal-Mart Opponents Hire Attorney To Halt Store
Published: Feb 11, 2005
TARPON SPRINGS - A group of residents opposing the construction of a Wal-Mart Supercenter on U.S. 19 along the Anclote River will sue Tarpon Springs to overturn the city commission's approval of the project Jan. 19.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBGG8KY15E.html
Tensions run high during Wal-Mart hearing
Attorney, city official behave ‘rudely' at court
By Chad Lawhorn, Journal-World
Friday, February 11, 2005
In a courtroom where emotions briefly boiled over, Wal-Mart attorneys Thursday argued city commissioners ignored expert opinions from their own staff when thwarting the retailer's plans to build a store in northwest Lawrence.
http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/195886
Wal-Mart settles child labour cases
Associated Press
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Washington — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, will pay $135,540 (U.S.) to settle federal charges that it broke child labor laws, the Labor Department said Saturday.
The 24 violations, which occurred at stores in Arkansas, Connecticut and New Hampshire, had to do with teenage workers who used hazardous equipment such as a chain saw, paper balers and fork lifts.
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Granby Wal-Mart receives bomb threat
Canadian Press
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Granby, Que. — A Wal-Mart store in this city about 80 kilometres east of Montreal was evacuated Saturday after police received a noon-hour bomb threat.
Mr. Granby police spokesman Lieut. Louis Gregoire said no suspicious objects were found, but the store remained closed as police continued to check the area following the anonymous 9-1-1 call that came in around 12:30 p.m.
It's the third store to receive such a threat in two days.
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Union weighs public boycott of Wal-Mart
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Montreal — The bitter conflict pitting unionized workers in the remote Quebec town of Jonquière against Wal-Mart reached a flashpoint yesterday as labour leaders vowed to ratchet up their fight against the U.S. retail colossus and bomb threats forced the evacuation of two of its stores in Gatineau.
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Wal-Mart Says Feb. Same-Store Sales Rising Within Its Forecast
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said February sales at U.S. stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast for a gain of as much as 4 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aZCurQW4AR3o&refer=top_world_news
Wal-Mart to appeal union decision in Saint-Hyacinthe
Last Updated Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:21:17 EST
CBC News
SAINT-HYACINTHE, QUE. - Wal-Mart Canada says it will appeal a provincial decision to unionize its store in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., CBC News has learned.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/13/walmart-quebec050213.html
Albion eyes huge Wal-Mart
Public will speak today on plan for a new commercial district
Meaghan M. McDermott
Staff writer
(February 13, 2005) — ALBION — The public on Monday will weigh in on whether the Town Board should rezone agricultural land on Route 31 to make way for a new commercial district that would include a Wal-Mart supercenter.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/NEWS01/502130330/1002/NEWS
Loveland tire shop takes on Wal-Mart to unionize
By KIRSTEN ORSINI-MEINHARD
KirstenOrsini@coloradoan.com
No one's quite sure who brought it up first.
Likely it was a couple of disgruntled workers who didn't know what they were getting into.
All Wal-Mart employee Alan Johnson can remember is that someone cried "union" and suddenly the Tire & Lube Express department in Lake Elsinore, Calif., was thrown into a years-long battle with the company that no one was prepared for.
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/BUSINESS/502130307/1046
Nashua doesn’t need Wal-Mart super store
George Skuse, Nashua
Published: Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005
Having just read Mark Dennison’s letter of Feb. 10 regarding the value of yet another Wal-Mart in the area, I can only say “bull pucky.”
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/OPINION02/102130006/-1/opinion
When size matters at Wal-Mart
By Matthew Davies
BBC World Service business reporter
Wal-Mart dwarfs its rivals in the retail business
The cash tills at any one of Wal-Mart's giant retail stores are rarely quiet.
Customers bought more than $284bn (£153bn) worth of goods from the world's largest retailer in the year to the end of January.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4253981.stm
Montana Debates Special Tax on Wal-Mart, Others
Mon Feb 14, 2005 02:14 PM ET
By Laura Zuckerman
MISSOULA, Montana (Reuters) - Montana's state legislature is targeting the big-box megastores that have taken the place of the old Western general store, weighing a special tax to offset welfare costs for low-paid employees of the retailers.
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7624289
Wal-Mart: Secret Deal With Wal-Mart on Labor Violations Needs Investigating
Secret Deal With Wal-Mart on Labor Violations Needs Investigating
By Office of Congressman George Miller
So-called ‘compliance agreement’ gives preferential treatment to major Republican donor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After disclosure of a secret agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and Wal-Mart giving the giant retailer the authority to conduct its own investigations of employee wage and hour complaints, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) today requested an investigation by the DOL’s Inspector General to determine whether the arrangement represents a sweetheart deal between the Bush Administration and one of the nation’s most frequent violators of labor laws.
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Keep Wal-Mart out of the neighborhood
Feb 10, 2005
February 14, 2005
You've heard that a rich guy named Jones wants to move into your modest middle-class neighborhood.
He plans to build a house that's at least four times as big as any of the other houses, and he has a reputation for being mean to the female members of his household, for paying low wages to his help, forcing them to work overtime without pay, and even locking them in the house when he goes out.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpmcc144145015feb14,0,2742070.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines
Wal-Mart Supercenter Gets Green Light in Fairfield
Mayor Hopes Business Will Drive Development
POSTED: 7:34 pm CST February 14, 2005
FAIRFIELD, Ala. -- A project five years in the works is finally a reality for the city of Fairfield: a Wal-Mart Supercenter has been given the green light.
http://www.nbc13.com/news/4197120/detail.html
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Announces Total Charitable Giving for 2004 Exceeded $170 Million; Touched 100,000 Organizations
Tuesday February 15, 3:15 pm ET
Largest Corporate Cash Giving Foundation in U.S. Focuses on Local Giving, Children and Community Efforts
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With more than 90 percent of its charitable giving targeted at local communities, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT - News) today announced that for its fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2005, cash donations through Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and the Wal-Mart & SAM'S CLUB Foundation exceeded a record $170 million.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050215/datu054_1.html
Dow Industrial Stocks Fall in Europe; Home Depot, Wal-Mart Drop
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retail stocks such as Home Depot Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. slid in Europe in advance of a government report economists expect to show falling U.S. retail sales. Stock-index futures were little changed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aZZeFHpk7Jas&refer=us
Wal-Mart praises its workers in Quebec newspaper ads
Tuesday, February 15, 2005, Page B15
Wal-Mart Canada Corp. took out a full-page ad in several Quebec newspapers yesterday, telling its employees they are the "cornerstone" of the company.
The retail giant's move came after its decision last week to close a Quebec store where unionized employees were seeking a first collective agreement.
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Big Bargains at Wal-Mart
By Will Swarts Published: February 15, 2005
AS WINTER SLOWLY STARTS to turn the corner to spring, American thoughts inevitably turn to hopping in the car and loading up on lots of inexpensive stuff.
That's excellent news for retailing giant Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which releases its fourth-quarter results on Thursday before the opening bell. Buoyed by Tuesday's Department of Commerce report on improved January retail sales figures, America's largest retailer is expected to meet — or beat — Wall Street's 74 cents a share estimate for its final quarter, ended Jan. 31. That's up 17% from the same period last year, and consensus estimates suggest year-end earnings per share of $2.40, an 18% increase from last year.
http://www.smartmoney.com/stockwatch/index.cfm?story=20050215&hpadref=1
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