California Says "Stuff-it" to Wal-Mart

USA Today: Wal-Mart's relentless rollout of new stores has foundered in California like a beached whale. Two years ago, the world's biggest company announced aggressive plans to build 40 of its trademark "supercenters" in this lucrative market of 35 million...

Wal-Mart Invades, and Mexico Gladly Surrenders

New York Times: The company that ate America is now swallowing Mexico. Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the United States, is already the biggest private employer in Mexico, with 100,164 workers on its payroll here as of last week. Last...

Discount Nation: Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

New York Times: The annual celebration of the American consumer economy -- the holiday shopping season -- is just underway, and Wal-Mart, the juggernaut of retailing, already seems to have claimed its first victim. The corporate owner of F.A.O. Schwarz...

Wal-Mart to Flex Muscles in Music Downloads?

ECommerceTimes: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reportedly is looking at beginning to sell digital music downloads by year's end, raising the prospect of new price competition in the online music market. That could significantly reduce the allure of unauthorized free music downloads....

Wal-Mart To Refuse MasterCard Signature Debit Cards

SunSentinal: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will stop accepting signature debit cards issued by MasterCard, starting in February, the first major retailer to take such action since a lawsuit settlement freed merchants to pick which credit and debit card services they use....

Wal-Mart: Are We Shopping Our Way to the Unemployment Line?

Fast Company: ... One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market. "One of the things that limits or slows the growth of imports is the cost of...

Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?

Business Week In business, there is big, and there is Wal-Mart. With $245 billion in revenues in 2002, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the world's largest company. It is three times the size of the No. 2 retailer, France's Carrefour. Every...

Oakland Bans Wal-Mart

San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland has become the latest Bay Area locality to ban big-box retailers that sell low-cost groceries, claiming they imperil neighborhood business districts and generate traffic headaches. Wal-Mart is not mentioned by name in the ordinance passed 7-1...

Big-name suppliers set up shop in Arkansas

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Watershed Reached for RFID

CNET News.com: Earlier this summer, Wal-Mart Stores announced that by Jan. 1, 2005, radio frequency identification technology would become a requirement for doing business with the world's largest retailer. A line was drawn in the sand: RFID was going to...