Walmart

BENTONVILLE, Ark. and MINNEAPOLIS -- Mass merchandisers Wal-Mart and Target each posted a fifth consecutive year of positive comparable store sales in May 2005 yesterday.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- More than 6,700 top-notch high school seniors and graduates this week will receive scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 from the Sam M. Walton Community Scholarship program, a nationwide program funded by the Wal-Mart & Sam's Club Foundation.

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.

PHOENIX -- The latest chapter in the long-running clash between the world's largest retailer and the largest retail workers' labor union unfolded yesterday at a press conference here, centering on the retailer's health care plan and related public assistance issues.

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.

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.