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Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Big Box Store Advantages, Buying in Bulk, Buying in Bulk Tips, Video, Sams Club, Costco, Buying Food in Bulk, Buying Bulk Food, Buying Wholesale, Big Box Store Disadvantages, Slidepollajax, KitchenDaily News

Everyone loves a deal, especially so when it comes to grocery shopping. The allure of saving without using coupons has lured many consumers over to wa...

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Walmart Taps First Woman, African-American To Head One Of Its Businesses

AP | Posted 03.21.2012

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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, said Friday that it has named Rosalind Brewer as CEO of Sam's Club &ndas...

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For Workers Stuck Part-Time, ‘Hours Are The New Bonus’

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Macy's, Walmart, Video, Labor, Workers, Retail Sales, Economy, Economic Crisis, Underemployment, Target, Retail, Ufcw, Unions, Sam's Club, Business News

WASHINGTON -- A little over two years ago, Floyd Kelly, then an associate at Walmart, transferred from one company store in Washington State to anothe...

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Adjusting to the Vanishing Bookstore

Tom Alderman | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Walmart, Calendars, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Puppy Calendars, Merchant Marine, Internet, Bookstore, Borders, Browntrout, Guttenberg, Sam's Club, Costco, Mike Brown, BrownTrout Publishers, Books News

For book lovers, nothing is quite so disheartening as seeing our local Borders or Barnes & Noble with a "For Lease" sign on the door. It's the indigestible realization that an increasing number of books now require a battery to read.

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Walmart's U.S. Struggles: Sales Fall For 7th Straight Quarter

HuffingtonPost.com | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Sales, Walmart Sales, Wal-Mart Customers, Supermarket, Same Store Sales, Food Prices, Fuel Prices, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart International Sales, Wal-Mart, Business News

Walmart's typical customer is still not spending. On Tuesday, the big-box retailer posted its seventh consecutive quarter of falling U.S. sales. A...

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No Downturn For Walmart As Retailer Posts Big Quarter

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wal-Mart Profits 2010, Walmart Stock, Walmart Earnings, Big Box Retailers, Sam's Club, Walmart Sales, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a 9.3 percent increase in third-quarter net income as the world's largest retailer benefited from cost ...

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Big Retailer To Offer $99 Health Care Plan

CNN Money | Parija Kavilanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Services, Business News, Health Insurance, Sam's Club, Sam's Club Health Services, Business News

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Beginning this month, Sam's Club shoppers stocking up on milk, detergent and toilet paper, can now also throw a basic health se...

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Sam's Club Will Offer Small Business Loans

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks, Walmart, Sam's Club, Superior Financial Group, Small Business Lending, Small Buisness Loans, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart's Sam's Club chain is teaming up with a lender to offer loans of up to $25,000 to its small business members. The program i...

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Retailers Create 'Stimulus Plans' For Customers To Boost Sales

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Retailers, Deficit, Congress, Unemployment, Toys R US, Economy, Consumer Spending, Financial Crisis, Sba, Stimulus, Unemployment Rate, Sam's Club, Business News

Tired of waiting for spending to rebound on its own, retailers are taking matters into their own hands. Stores like Sam's Club, Target, Toys "R" Us, S...

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Wal-Mart Profit Up But U.S. Sales Weak, As Many Customers Still Can't Afford

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Bill Simon, Retail Sales, Third World America, Wal-Mart Profits, Brazil, Mexico, Cost-Cutting, Consumer Demand, Consumer Spending, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, China, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a 3.6 percent increase in second-quarter net income and raised its earnings guidance for the full year ...

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Walmart's Growth: An Awesome Visualization Of The Retailer's Rapid Expansion (INFOGRAPHIC)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Walmart Growth, Flowingdata, Sam's Club, Video, Business News

Beginning with the first Walmart store, which opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, this incredible visualization -- put together by FlowingData, a dat...

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Wal-Mart Cutting 10,000 Jobs At Sam's Club

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Layoffs, Unemployment, Economy, Wal-Mart Sam's Club, Wal-Mart Layoffs, Jobs, Sam's Club, Sam's Club Jobs, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam's Club warehouses as it turns over the task of in-store product demonstrations...

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Wal-Mart Shows 3 Percent Profit Increase For 3Q

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Growth, Sam's Club, American-Corporatation, Wal-Mart, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a 3.2 percent increase in third-quarter profit, helped by cost-cutting measures like slashing inventories...

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Sam's Club Closing Louisville, CO Store; 125 to Lose Jobs

Jerry Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Louisville, Sams Club, Unemployment, Costco, Boulder, Boulder Shopping, Wal-Mart, Denver News

The big-box Sam's Club in Louisville, Colo. told its employees on Sunday night that it had been losing money, and it would shut down in two weeks on Friday, Jan. 22.

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HuffPost Reviews: Alice In Chains, Rosanne Cash, Kiss, and more, plus a Brandi Carlile Interview, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Black Orpheus, Sarah Cracknell, Linda Ronstadt, Bola Sete, Indigo Girls, Roxy Music, The Eagles, Andrew Gold, Neil Young, Sade, Stan Getz, Alice in Chains, Brandi Carlile, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, J.D. Souther, Peanuts, Dave Brubeck, Stephen Stills, Lisa Germano, Rosanne Cash, Elton John, Dan Fogelberg, Elvis Costello, Meshell Ndegeocello, Kiss, Joan Armatrading, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Fripp, Wal-Mart, Crosby Stills & Nash, Charles Schulz, Vince Guaraldi, Wilco, Mary Travers, Jeff Tweedy, Robbie Robertson, Erroll Garner, Charlie Brown, Astrid Gilberto, Charlie Mingus, Karla Bonoff, Entertainment News, Joni Mitchell, Rufus Wainwright, Amy Ray, Sam's Club, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

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Sam's Club Launches Book Club

mediabistro.com | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishing, Price Wars, Book Publishing, Book Clubs, Sam's Club Book Club, Books, Beth Hoffman, Sam's Club, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Booksellers, Books News

As smaller bookstores struggle through the recession, one major retailer has launched a book club--highlighting a single title in cavernous stores aro...

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6 Controversial Wal-Mart Promotions

minyanville.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Wal-Mart Promotions, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Minanyville, Business News

Sam's Club -- a subsidiary of Wal-Mart (WMT) -- recently came under fire for a rather unusual promotional campaign for its pharmacy: A Maryland branch...

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Sam's Club Liquor Sales Allowed: Arkansas Court

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Sam's Club in Fayetteville can operate a liquor store adjoining its retail operation, potentially allowing other departmen...

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Wal-Mart and the Future of Healthcare

Ron Galloway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Healthcare, Seiu, Tom Daschle, Electronic Health Records, Information Technology, Corporate Responsibility, Health Clinics, Electronic Healthcare Records, Medicare, Medicaid, Netflix, Sam's Club, Health Care, Wal-Mart, Business News

In healthcare I think through sheer scale Wal-Mart wi'll prevail, and change the landscape of the industry as a healthcare "black swan."

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Sam's Club Worker Forced To Cover Up Obama Shirt

News 4 | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Jacksonville man who chose to show his support for the new president by wearing a shirt with President Barack Obama's picture has found himself in t...

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Sam's Club CEO Sees Black Friday Sales, Traffic Up

forbes.com | Matt Woolsey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wal Mart, Sam's Club Sales, Sales, Sam's Club Black Friday, Doug McMillon, Sam's Club, Black Friday, Deals, Business News

Black Friday sales and store traffic will rise this year as U.S. consumers who delayed purchases in the past few weeks finally head to stores to take ...

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Is Greener Packaging Worth a Little Spilled Milk?

Collin Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Wal-Mart Environmentalism, Sam's Club, Fuel Efficiency, Wal-Mart, Green News

The Wal-Mart/Sam's Club new square milk jug is designed to improve space efficiency, reduce waste, and cut costs -- but are proving tricky for some customers, who are having trouble pouring the milk without spilling some of it.

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Costco, Wal-Mart's New Milk Jug: More Efficient, Less Popular

New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Weird Milk Jug, Sustainable Materials, Sustainable Packaging, Green Living, Sustainable Infrastructure, Sustainable Shipping, Sam's Club, New Milk Jug, Costco, Wal-Mart, Business News

NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are che...

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Rice Shortage Poll: What Do You Think?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rice Rationing, Video, Sams Club, Rice Shortage, Poll, Rice Ration, Costco, Business News

With the nation bracing for a rice shortage, and nationwide wholesale retailers Sam's Club and Costco rationing the amount of rice each consumer can b...

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Sam's Club, Costco Limit Rice Purchases

AP | MARCUS KABEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rice, Rice Prices, Rice Supplies, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Costco, Business News

The two biggest U.S. warehouse retail chains are limiting how much rice customers can buy because of what Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores In...

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