by The City Wire staff - October 15, 2014 7:36 pm
Greg Foran has had an “unvarnished” view of store operations at Walmart U.S., and he said restoring balance between inventory and sales is needed to improve lackluster margins. He admitted…
by The City Wire staff - September 18, 2014 3:42 pm
Fascination with 3D printing continues to brew in the retail industry and toymaker Hasbro is taking a 3D event on the road to 10 Walmart Supercenters, including the store at…
by The City Wire staff - August 7, 2014 2:53 pm
Discount grocer ALDI – a small box, no frills, private label grocery format – was recognized as the nation’s low-price grocery leader for the fourth year by consumer research firm…
by The City Wire staff - August 4, 2014 6:42 pm
Wal-Mart store manager Sherry Curtis-Swenson is putting the finishing touches on worker schedules, overseeing the store stocking and making sure the region’s newest Walmart Supercenter in Springdale runs without a…
by The City Wire staff - July 28, 2014 5:04 pm
Wal-Mart’s decision to promote Greg Foran to CEO of Walmart U.S. was a surprising move to analysts given Foran does not have the U.S. retail experience that other execs within…
by The City Wire staff - July 24, 2014 8:13 am
Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon is stepping down after more than four years in the job and eight years with Wal-Mart. Greg Foran, 53, was named the new Walmart U.S….
by The City Wire staff - June 26, 2014 5:28 pm
Wal-Mart and many other retailers are wrestling with inventory levels growing faster than sales. In April, Wal-Mart acknowledged during its Year Beginning Meetings that the retailer lost about $3 billion…
by The City Wire staff - June 16, 2014 7:13 pm
Wal-Mart has 500 million reasons to aggressively test company-owned heath care clinics in its retail stores, which it recently began piloting in Texas. With more than 1.1 million Americans working…
by The City Wire staff - March 23, 2014 10:23 am
Wal-Mart execs keenly focused on improving comparable sales and driving top line revenue are testing a new “Savings Catcher” pricing tool as a way to drive in-store traffic and hammer…
by The City Wire staff - October 29, 2013 1:11 pm
Wal-Mart continues to toot its own horn about the opportunities for promotion from within its ranks. On Tuesday (Oct. 29) the retailer announced it would promote 25,000 workers to jobs…
by The City Wire staff - August 29, 2013 6:32 pm
Wal-Mart employs an estimated 1.3 million people in the U.S. and roughly 10,000 in the Northwest Arkansas area so it’s no surprise that the retail giant is also an all-family…
by The City Wire staff - March 8, 2013 11:02 am
Leslie Dach, executive vice president of Corporate Affairs for Walmart, is leaving the big box giant in June. He is the second top ranking officer from within Wal-Mart’s inner core…
by The City Wire staff - February 25, 2013 12:10 pm
Lowell-based J.B. Hunt Transport Services has been recognized by Walmart for Innovative Excellence in Transportation for 2012. In a letter of commendation to J.B. Hunt, Rob Kusiciel, vice president Walmart…
by The City Wire staff - December 26, 2012 12:02 pm
El Dorado-based Murphy Oil Corp. on Wednesday (Dec. 26) announced it will build more than 200 new fuel stations at existing Walmart Supercenter locations in the midwest and southeast United…
by The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - August 9, 2012 3:09 pm
Henkel Consumer Goods is spearheading a project this summer to give students in Arkansas and Ireland a taste of what it is like to work in long-distance collaboration for a…
by The City Wire staff - July 31, 2012 2:06 pm
The Citizens for Responsible Development delivered Tuesday (July 31) on an earlier promise to collect and provide more than 3,000 signatures in an attempt to reverse a city zoning decision…
by The City Wire staff - July 27, 2012 3:28 pm
Just a few months ago, there were likely few – if any – Wal-Mart observers who would have guessed share prices of the world’s largest retailer would push past the…
