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Wal-Mart Stores

Data: North America

Location: Bentonville, Ark.
Top Executive: Mike Duke, president and CEO
Corporate Stores: 4,624
Sales in $ Billions: 262.0 est.
Date FY Ends: 1/31/10
Website: www.walmart.com

Footnotes

Volume total represents combined sales of Wal-Mart Supercenters, Wal-Mart discount stores, Sam’s Clubs, Neighborhood Markets and Marketside stores in the U.S. and Canada, which account for approximately 64% of total corporate sales (estimated at $409.4 billion in 2009). Wal-Mart operates 2,746 supercenters in the U.S. and 75 in Canada; 152 Neighborhood Markets and four Marketside stores in the U.S.; 803 discount stores in the U.S. and 239 in Canada; and 605 Sam’s Clubs in the U.S. (The six Sam’s Clubs in Canada closed last year, and 10 more Sam's are scheduled to close in 2010.) It operates 3,979 stores outside the U.S. and Canada.

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Regional Can Compete vs. Wal-Mart: Study
Jul 26, 2010, Supermarket News, By SN STAFF
CAMBRIDGE Mass. Â— A regional grocery operator can hold its own against Wal-Mart Stores by emphasizing value and neighborhood appeal, according to a study by Kantar Retail here that compared a Wal-Mart Supercenter with a new 76,000-square-foot Market Basket less than a mile away in Epping, N.H.

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Jul 26, 2010, Supermarket News, By MICHAEL GARRY
Food retailers in recent years have paid a great deal of attention to controlling the energy consumption of their stores, investing in new lighting and refrigeration equipment and energy management systems, among other technology. But another ongoing user of energy private trucking fleets has been the subject of considerable scrutiny as retailers seek to control costs and lessen their impact on the

Bottom Dollar Expands to Philly
Jul 26, 2010, Supermarket News - Subscribers Only, By JON SPRINGER
Bottom Dollar, Delhaize's nascent discount chain, last week announced it would open 21 stores in the greater Philadelphia market. The new stores would join a field of established competitors already suffering from the economy and recent arrivals of Wal-Mart and Wegmans. For Delhaize, the stores would also begin to bridge the gap between its Food Lion territory in the Mid-Atlantic and

SmartWay Performance Scores
Jul 26, 2010, Supermarket News, By MICHAEL GARRY
THE SMARTWAY TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP, the Environmental Protection Agency's program to help companies use the newest trucking technology to cut fuel usage and emissions, has a number of food retailer participants. The following list shows SmartWay participants and their current performance score, which indicates the relative fuel efficiency and environmental performance of their fleets. All SmartWay

Brookshire Brothers Cuts Staff
Jul 26, 2010, Supermarket News - Subscribers Only, By MARK HAMSTRA
Brookshire Brothers, the employee-owned supermarket and convenience-store operator based here, has trimmed its corporate staff by 47 employees, the company said. The move followed the examination of the company's operations by an outside consulting firm in an effort to increase competitiveness and deal with the challenges of a tough economy, Brookshire Brothers said in a prepared statement.

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