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Retailers from such companies as 7-Eleven, Kum & Go, Jewel-Osco and others will join Walmart’s director of multicultural marketing Carla Dodds on the agenda for this year’s Hispanic Retail 360 Summit.

Supervalu, Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that alleges one of the world’s largest retailer’s stores in the Twin Cities sells too many groceries, according to local press reports.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. president and CEO Mike Duke has outlined how the mega-retailer will build what it calls “the Next Generation Walmart,” which, among other things, will create 500,000 jobs worldwide over the next five years.

Retail same-store sales excluding Walmart increased 2.7 percent last month as sales growth inched up despite the effects of a sluggish stock market and changing shopper patterns, according to Columbus, Ohio-based Kantar Retail, a global retail insights and consulting business.

Half of the over 500 households surveyed nationally by Novato, Calif.-based Q & A Research said that their impressions of both Walmart and Target are more positive as a direct result of expanded grocery inventories in many of the retailers’ superstores.

Over 30,000 shoppers found Costco to be the best of 11 of America’s most popular chain stores, a survey by Consumer Reports has found.