Walmart

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Canada and GE Consumer Finance on Thursday announced they will introduce the first private-label credit card program for Wal-Mart and Sam's Club warehouse stores in Canada, according to Reuters.

BENTONVILLE, Ark.- In a renewed effort to reduce sales of tobacco to minors, Wal-Mart Stores here has agreed to adopt new procedures to ensure compliance with state and federal tobacco laws, the Associated Press reports.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world's largest retailer, plans to open as many as 195 new stores and replace or expand another 160 in the United States next year.

CLEVELAND -- Supermarket competitors Giant Eagle and Tops Friendly Markets launched a price war this week, but many customers failed to notice, according to a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Three of Southern California's largest grocery chains face a possible strike by seven locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers when their contracts expire on Oct. 5, according to local reports.

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday asked a federal judge to break up a sexual discrimination lawsuit that seeks to represent 1.6 million current and former female employees against the world's largest retailer.

CHICAGO -- Wal-Mart Stores faces a pivotal hearing this week in a sex discrimination lawsuit that could become the largest ever and force the world's largest retailer to pay female employees hundreds of millions of dollars, Reuters reports.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Several grocery retailers here are following the lead of other chains across the nation by refusing to accept online coupons after being burned by a blitz of fakes that have cost them millions of dollars nationally, the Columbus Dispatch reports.