by - November 14, 2012 9:06 am
Amazon.com Inc. has cheaper online prices for toys than Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and other major chains as parents begin shopping for the holidays, according to a Bloomberg Industries…
by - November 2, 2012 5:20 pm
Hundreds of parents and children descended Friday afternoon onto the Bentonville Square expecting to see Toyland come to life instead they saw the set-up. There was apparent confusion on the…
by - October 31, 2012 12:39 pm
By 2025 anyone born between 1980 and 2000 (Millennial generation) will make up 75% of the U.S. workforce and yes, Vendorville. Millennials will be the most educated generation in history…
by - October 29, 2012 7:50 pm
Peggy Knight was a single mother with a young son in 1983 when she lost her marketing job at a hospital. With no college degree and the U.S. economy struggling…
by - October 29, 2012 5:14 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. asked a federal judge to deny a bid by 11 women to pursue gender-discrimination claims on behalf of female employees who worked for the retailer in Florida,…
by - October 25, 2012 4:57 pm
Wal-Mart told its global suppliers they have until 2017 to comply with its sustainability initiative or risk losing shelf space. The retailer said Thursday (Oct. 25) during a conference in…
by - October 25, 2012 1:06 pm
Making your own soda may date back more than 100 years but entering into the world’s largest retailer is new business. If you’ve entered any retail store or listened to…
by - October 24, 2012 8:16 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, combined its compliance office with ethics, investigations and legal functions to form one organization amid a bribery probe at the company’s Mexico operations….
by - October 23, 2012 6:22 pm
BENTONVILLE —When Zakir Sayed moved to Bentonville in 2004, he was a part of a group of men from Wal-Mart and the local supplier community would drive to the Islamic…
by - October 23, 2012 5:19 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was hit with another lawsuit this week over alleged wage and overtime infractions between two staffing agencies that placed several hundred temporary workers in the Chicago metro…
by - October 22, 2012 9:02 pm
The goal of Botticelli Foods was to build the family-owned company, create a successful brand and get their olive oil on Wal-Mart shelves when it was ready. It took 10…
by - October 18, 2012 10:15 pm
The supplier education business centered around commerce with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has somewhat become a cottage industry of its own across Benton County with export potential. It seems suppliers of…
by - October 18, 2012 5:51 pm
Tesco Plc this week is trying to lure Chinese shoppers with promotions on soy sauce, cooking oil and apples. Emily Zhang still won’t do much of her shopping there. The…
by - October 17, 2012 8:50 pm
Retail is being turned on its head by an ongoing digital/social revolution that is evolving at warp speed, according to retail expert Darrell Rigby of Boston-based Bain & Co. Rigby…
by - October 15, 2012 9:51 pm
KSC Kreate is the newest of hundreds of companies to cozy up next to Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the intimate company it keeps – some 1,280 or so suppliers…
by - October 15, 2012 7:56 pm
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won dismissal of class-action bias claims in a gender-discrimination lawsuit in federal court in Dallas. The lawsuit claimed Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, discriminated against women in…
by - October 12, 2012 1:43 pm
Officials from the University of Arkansas and the Sam M. Walton College of Business were joined by representatives of Walmart and the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, students and faculty…
by - October 11, 2012 3:47 pm
Walmart U.S. is partnering with Mercy Hospital Springfield and five other hospitals in the country as it announces its new “Centers of Excellence,” according to a statement from Mercy. The…
by - October 8, 2012 12:34 pm
Green Dot Corp., the prepaid-card firm that derives most of its revenue from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., fell the most in two months after the world’s biggest retailer said it would…
by - October 6, 2012 2:46 pm
Her message is that the time has come for women to stand up and step forward into more leadership roles across a world in need of kindness and understanding. But…
