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LOS ANGELES -- A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has stopped a union election by a group of workers a Clinton, Md. Wal-Mart, Reuters reports.

Safeway UK ties in electronic shelf labels and price optimization software for more profitable pricing, more often.

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart is looking to open its first store in the five New York boroughs, Crain's New York Business reported on Sunday.

Supermarket sales rose 2 percent last year, a rate that notably lagged the gain of 2001 and underscored the significance of hard times and tough competition.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. plans to open one of its doughnut-making retail stores within a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Supercenter in Mount Airy, N.C., as part of a test, a Krispy Kreme spokeswoman said.

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.