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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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Asian Persuasion | Canada's food retailers adapt to a fast-growing immigrant population
Sep 06, 2010, Supermarket News, By MARK HAMSTRA
The Great White North is becoming decidedly less white in its ethnic profile, and food retailers are seeking to step up to the challenge. A fast-growing Asian population a mix of ethnic profiles from Chinese to Pakistani is reshaping the food-retailing landscape across the country. We just saw over the last five to six years an absolute explosion of independent grocery stores across Canada, and it

Data Warehouse Informs Decisions at Red Apple
Sep 06, 2010, Supermarket News, By MICHAEL GARRY
NEW YORK Red Apple here has begun leveraging a data warehouse system to uncover insights into labor and ordering requirements as well as develop a better understanding of consumer buying habits at specific supermarkets across its 34-store Gristede's chain. Red Apple received the refrigerator-sized data warehouse a Data Warehouse Appliance from Teradata, Dayton, Ohio at its Manhattan headquarters in

Promotions Return at Winn-Dixie
Sep 06, 2010, Supermarket News, By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Winn-Dixie Stores here plans to become more promotional in an effort to drive sales and market share a strategy that had previously backfired, but one the chain is now forced to pursue, analysts said. The company is adopting its more aggressive position following disappointing results for its fourth fiscal quarter, when identical-store sales fell 5.2%, including a 4.2% decline in

The Week in Stocks
Sep 06, 2010, Supermarket News
FOR 24 NORTH AMERICAN FOOD RETAILERS TRACKED BY SN, AT THE CLOSE THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 2010 MARKET SUMMARY gainers 19 decliners 5 unchanged 0 Ingles +8.73% Weis Markets +6.37% A&P +4.14% MOST ACTIVE BY VOLUME Wal-Mart 56,950,334 Target 27,191,335 Kroger 18,926,792 AS PERCENTAGE OF SHARES OUTSTANDING BJ's Wholesale Club 6.30% Supervalu 6.14% A&P 5.90% Winn-Dixie -19.46% Safeway -1.02% United Natural Foods

Sales Pitch | Third-party merchandisers are training brand ambassadors with webinars, streaming video and even mobile apps
Sep 06, 2010, Supermarket News, By JULIE GALLAGHER
If you spot a demo associate at Kroger staring at his iPhone, don't assume he's handling personal business on the company dime. If he's there on behalf of retail shopper marketing company New Concepts in Marketing, chances are he's viewing an instructional video on an iPhone app. Smart phone-accessible training materials, online videos and webinars are helping brand ambassadors follow instructions

Michigan Kroger Workers Extend Contract | United Food and Commercial Workers Local 876
Sep 02, 2010, Supermarket News, By SN STAFF
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. Â— After workers at 17 Kroger stores in the Flint and Saginaw, Mich., areas rejected a labor contract offer from Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., they have agreed to extend the current pact until Sept. 15, reports said Thursday.

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