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  • Super H vs. Wal-Mart Suit to Probe Supermarkets' Price Checking Practices

    SKIATOOK, Okla. -- Checking competitors' prices is common practice in the supermarket industry -- but is it legally a slippery slope? Industry players and watchers are asking the question, in the wake of a recently filed lawsuit in which the owners of a Super H supermarket here claim that Wal-Mart workers stole proprietary information from scanning Super H shelf bar codes.

  • Wal-Mart Makes Black Enterprise Magazine's List of Best Companies for Diversity

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Not all the media exposure Wal-Mart's been getting regarding its employment practices has been negative. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has been named one of "The 30 Best Companies for Diversity" by Black Enterprise magazine. It was the only retailer to make the list, which is being featured in Black Enterprise's July issue.

  • Safeway Taps Former Wal-Mart V.P. for New Audit Position

    PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway, Inc. here said yesterday it named John A. Lewis as s.v.p., internal audit, a new position. He will have overall responsibility for the company's internal audit function, reporting to e.v.p. and c.f.o. Robert Edwards.

  • More Consumers Find Little Difference Between Private Label Products and National Brands: Survey

    NEW YORK -- According to double-blind taste tests conducted in 10 locations across the country by Meyers Research Center for the Private Label Manufacturers Association (PLMA), consumers by a 51-percent-to-49-percent say the prefer the taste of private label items over their national brand counterparts in 12 popular categories.

  • Wal-Mart Rescinds Coughlin's Retirement Deal

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. here said on Friday it has rescinded its retirement agreement with Thomas Coughlin, the former vice chairman who left the company in March after an internal investigation into his personal expenses.

  • Wal-Mart, 5 A Day, Supplier Partners Team for 'Fantastic Four' Promotion

    WILMINGTON, Del. --Timed to coincide with the release of the Fantastic Four's first movie in July, a collaboration between the Produce for Better Health Foundation and Wal-Mart Stores hopes to find families flying the produce departments at over 1,700 Wal-Mart Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets on June 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to "Build a Fantastic You with 5 A Day The Color Way."

  • Wal-Mart testing company gas stations

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. here is quietly testing company-owned gas stations at a small number of its stores, according to a Reuters report. The experiment, if expanded, could stymie its petroleum partner Murphy Oil Corp.'s fast-growing gas station business.

  • Meth Legislation Shifts Hurting Food Retailers: IRI Study

    NEW ORLEANS -- An extensive study of sales trends in Oklahoma and Illinois -- states in which meth legislation has been in effect long enough to measure an impact pre- and post-legislation -- do not bode well for the supermarket industry.
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