Walmart

LEEDS, United Kingdom -- In a telling sign that online grocery shopping is proving profitable in the United Kingdom, Wal-Mart-owned Asda here plans to double the size of its home shopping service this year. The move is also likely a competitive response to Asda's chief rival, Tesco, which continues to expand its successful online retailing operation. Asda is the U.K.'s number two grocer behind Tesco.

Grocers should bone up on what's hot for back-to-school, to exploit key food and nonfoods business during the season's window of opportunity.

Smarter assortments and cross-merchandising teamwork will help nutrition foods and drinks stay in the race.

Diversity management is evolving from the right thing to do into a competitive advantage.

VANCOUVER -- Sam's Club Canada, a division of Wal-Mart Canada Corp., now offers its members the ability to order prints from their digital camera images for pickup via the new Sam's Club PhotoCentre Online Web site.

ALDI knows who its customers are. And I'm not one of them.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart, and drug store chains CVS and Walgreens, are new members of the ScriptSave pharmacy network.

LEEDS, England -- Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, the United Kingdom's No. 2 supermarket, said that it would overhaul its 278 health and beauty sections at a cost of 7 million pounds (U.S. $12.8 million), according to a report in U.K. newspaper the Evening Telegraph.