Katherine Bowers

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - It was a fix-it year for Wal-Mart Stores here, which tried new tactics to cope with mounting external and internal problems.In 2005, the $285 billion retailer fought back against increasingly well...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The contentious debate over the impact of Wal-Mart Stores here on American society is coming to screens -- and to churches, universities and community centers -- in two documentaries that present...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores' struggles with its reputation, sluggish sales and stagnant stock price tempered the customarily festive annual shareholders' meeting, which was replete with the national anthem...

ROGERS, Ark. -- On a brisk spring morning, much of northwest Arkansas' power elite, in suits and cowboy boots, waited in a field about five miles from Wal-Mart Stores' headquarters for the groundbreaking of a...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target's food sales are growing faster than its general merchandise sales, according to Robert Ulrich, the company's chairman and chief executive officer.Speaking at a press conference following the...

ROGERS, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores is upgrading and expanding its Sam's Choice private label with such gourmet items as ready-to-bake molten chocolate cakes and a brown sugar-glazed ham in purple foil. New packaging -...

JANE, Mo. -- Wal-Mart Stores used a new 160,000-square-foot supercenter here to show off new design features and demonstrate its "store of the community" micro-merchandising in action. The tour was part of a media...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Scandal is haunting Wal-Mart Stores, even as the world's largest retailer spends millions to improve its reputation.Wal-Mart revealed that its former vice chairman, Thomas Coughlin, had been asked...