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  • Sam's Club Chooses New Creative Agency

    BENTONVILLE, Ala. -- Warehouse retailer Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart, has chosen New York-based StrawberryFrog to handle advertising creative for the warehouse chain after a review that lasted about two months.

  • Spartan Names New Supply Chain Exec

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Derek Jones was named s.v.p./supply chain for Spartan Stores, Inc., based here. In his new post, Jones, a one-time Wal-Mart back office operations exec, will lead the supply chain and logistics aspects of Spartan's growing, value-added grocery distribution operation.

  • Iowa Trade Group Voices Support for Local Retailers

    DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Grocery Industry Association (IGIA) based here is speaking up for Iowa retailers that are being attacked in a series of a pro-labor union press conferences across the state.

  • Communist Party Head Pressed for Wal-Mart's First Chinese Union: Report

    BEIJING and BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- An order by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, was behind a labor group campaign that ultimately led to the creation of the first union in a Wal-Mart'in China, according to a report in the Beijing Times.

  • Grocery Sales Give Wal-Mart Lift in Difficult Q2

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Steady sales of food and consumables helped Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. during a challenging second quarter in which the world's largest retailer suffered its first profit slip in a decade.

  • Grocery Sales Give Wal-Mart Lift in Difficult Q2

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Steady sales of food and consumables helped Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. during a challenging second quarter in which the world's largest retailer suffered its first profit slip in a decade.

  • Ex-Wal-Mart Exec Sentenced to House Arrest

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Tom Coughlin, the former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. here who admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from the retailer, was sentenced to 27 months of house arrest late last week.

  • Competition in N.C. Drives Southern Family Markets Out

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Southern Family Markets, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers, has decided the North Carolina market's heat is just too much. The retailer will completely vacate the market with the closure of nine supermarkets and the potential sale of its remaining eight locations.
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