DALLAS - Wal-Mart is planning to open the first of a new generation of urban stores with a two-story supercenter in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News reports.
YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - Wal-Mart plans to spend $40 million to build a more than 800,000-square-foot food-distribution center in Grandview, Wash., the Yakima Herald-Republic reports.
AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market, the world's largest natural and organic foods supermarket retailer, today announced its plans for a new 80,000-square-foot landmark store and 200,000-square-foot office tower in downtown Austin.
CHICAGO - Target Corp. said on Monday it plans to spend $3.3 billion to $3.5 billion in 2002, mostly to expand its discount Target stores, Reuters reports.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Kansas City-based Associated Wholesale Grocers, which owns Food 4 Less, has said it will buy five Albertson's stores in Kansas, The Wichita Eagle reports.
DETROIT - Kmart Corp. today announced it will close 284 under-performing stores in 40 states and Puerto Rico, and eliminate around 22,000 positions as part of its restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
SAN DIEGO - PriceSmart Inc. on Monday announced the acquisition of property for its first Jamaican membership club warehouse store in Kingston, Jamaica.
