Walmart

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Adding to its list of green initiatives, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is adding solar-power systems to about 22 of its facilities in California and Hawaii, working with solar power providers.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart said yesterday that the FDA's most recent prescription to over-the-counter (OTC) approved drug, Zyrtec (cetirizine HCl) is now available at select Wal-Mart U.S. stores.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- In a speech yesterday to more than 7,000 store managers at the annual kick-off meeting for U.S. Wal-Mart stores, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. president and c.e.o. Lee Scott said the company would continue to demonstrate leadership and work for change on major issues important to Wal-Mart's customers, communities, associates, and suppliers worldwide.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart said yesterday that the FDA's most recent prescription to over-the-counter (OTC) approved drug, Zyrtec (cetirizine HCl) is now available at select Wal-Mart U.S. stores.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said yesterday that the proportion of its associates who now have health care coverage through its own new associate-tailored plans for 2008 or other sources has increased to 92.7 percent from 90.4 percent, and the number of uninsured associates decreased by more than 20 percent, compared to a year ago. Just over 50 percent are insured through Wal-Mart's plan, the company said.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will open the first of its four second generation of high-efficiency stores (known as "HE.2"), which will use 25 percent less energy than the baseline Wal-Mart Supercenter, Jan. 23 in Romeoville, Ill. The location melds what the megaretailer has learned from its successful first-generation high-efficiency stores (HE.1) with new cutting-edge technologies. As well as saving energy, the new stores will considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions by lowering refrigerant by 90 percent, according to Wal-Mart.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will open the first of its four second generation of high-efficiency stores (known as "HE.2"), which will use 25 percent less energy than the baseline Wal-Mart Supercenter, Jan. 23 in Romeoville, Ill. The location melds what the megaretailer has learned from its successful first-generation high-efficiency stores (HE.1) with new cutting-edge technologies. As well as saving energy, the new stores will considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions by lowering refrigerant by 90 percent, according to Wal-Mart.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The world's largest retailer has confirmed that it's gearing up to introduce a new grocery format. The small-format stores will be known as "Marketside" and will debut as early as this summer in Arizona, according to a report yesterday in The Financial Times.