Saturday, November 22, 2008

Green Retailing Memo: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to Make Major Purchase of Renewable Wind-Power to Supply 15% of the Power For its 360 Stores in Texas, USA

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As we wrote about in this piece yesterday, " Retail Memo: Wal-Mart CEO Steps Down; Head of International Operations Mike Duke to Lead R...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Retail Memo: Wal-Mart CEO Steps Down; Head of International Operations Mike Duke to Lead Retail Giant; USA Chief Castro-Wright Promoted

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In a move today that took nearly everybody by surprise, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. replaced CEO Lee Scott with Mike Duke (pictured at left), the ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Food Retailing & Society Memo: Wal-Mart Steps in; Gives $12.5 Million Line of Credit to Group Trying to Secure Funding to Build King Memorial

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Wal-Mart Stores' Wal-Mart charitable foundation stepped in today to help the group planning to build a memorial to the late civil rights...

Food Retailing & Society Memo: Wal-Mart Donates $2.5 Million to 'Feeding America;' Will Also Give 90 Million Pounds of Food A Year to the Organization

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America's banks and financial institutions, many of which are run by members of the "greed is good crowd," asked for and recei...
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Independent Grocer Memo: Specialty Supermarket Hubbell & Hudson in Houston Texas' The Woodlands Defies Current Economic Recession

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The Hubbell & Hudson upscale, specialty supermarket in the wealthy The Woodlands communtiy in Texas. [Photo credit: Gary Fountain for t...
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Retail Memo: Here Comes Wal-Mart USA -- Again and Again and Again

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Mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'s Wal-Mart USA division (it's largest in terms of annual sales), which now is the number one sel...

Retail Memo: Target Corp. Launching Major Expansion of Food and Grocery Products in its Target Discount Format Stores

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At least you can say Target Corp. CEO Gregg Steinhafel is a man with a plan -- or two. Steinhafel, the CEO of the extremely popular until th...