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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart will launch a Diabetes Awareness customer educational event this weekend in more than 2,900 stores across the country to help the more than 17 million Americans with diabetes.

MINERSVILLE, Pa. - Wal-Mart has announced it will build a new distribution center near Minersville, Pa., to serve 130 stores in the Northeast with perishable goods. The 470,000-square-foot facility is slated to open late next year or in early 2005.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores here has teamed with mobile communications firm Qualcomm to implement a program that will alert Wal-Mart truck drivers about Amber Alerts of missing children through the new "Roadwatch: Missing Child Alert" system.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Flexing its muscle in an increasingly crowded Twin Cities grocery market, Cub Foods said Tuesday it will have 50 metro-area stores by early 2005.

CAMDEN, N.J. - The Campbell Soup Company will attempt to spoon up a new Guinness World Record on Aug. 30 by serving the world's largest simultaneous soup lunch on record by time zone at Wal-Mart stores.

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The chief executive at Brazil's Bompreco supermarket chain is stepping down after only six months, as the sale of the chain, by struggling Dutch parent company Ahold NV, draws near, according to a company press release.

CHICAGO -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said on Wednesday its quarterly earnings rose more than 20 percent, bolstered by a recovery in its Sam's Club warehouse unit and by rapid international expansion.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Meijer Inc. and the United Food and Commercial Workers union have reached a tentative labor contract for 36,000 Michigan employees, according to local press reports.