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WASHINGTON -- A rating system proposed by a group of major video game manufacturers has earned the approval of two U.S. senators who had earlier threatened to regulate the game industry. In a hearing held here on July 29, the Interactive Digital...
MEXICO CITY -- Cifra here expects to open a Sam's Club warehouse store in Villahermosa, a city in southern Mexico, according to Henry Davis, president.e, Ark.Davis made his comments at the ground-breaking for a commercial center in Villahermosa...
MEXICO CITY (FNS) -- Kmart Corp. officials are watching the progress of two Super Kmart Centers it recently opened near here before pushing ahead with additional units.Joseph Antonini, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Troy, Mich...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores will launch its Sam's Club and Supercenter formats in Brazil and Argentina.Wal-Mart expects to open two Sam's Club units and two Supercenters in Argentina next year and possibly three clubs and one supercenter...
After all the excitement surrounding activities that lead to the merger of two companies fades away, and when some of the publicity quiets, a big question remains: How will the two companies be combined?The question is also a complex one. It...
HERSHEY, Pa. -- If Hershey has a secret to success, it could be a program called QTE, or Quality Through Excellence. It aims to teach and motivate employees to be flexible when serving the retail customer.no, president and chief operating officer...
TULSA, Okla. -- A large-scale test of a new cart-mounted advertising medium at 220 Wal-Mart stores will mark a new opportunity for brand marketers to reach the giant retailer's customers through in-store messages.ADDvantage Media Group here said...
It's the best of times, it's the worst of times. It's a time of tremendous change, driven by the need for efficiency. It's a time bursting with theories, schemes and legitimate techniques to achieve that efficiency. It's time to lose one's...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The threat to the supermarket industry posed by Sam's Club may be shifting as Wal-Mart Stores here, the operator of Sam's, moves to put more emphasis on its Supercenter format.Wal-Mart's goal is to make its two formats...
WASHINGTON -- Whatever innovations retailers undertake to increase productivity are bound to fail unless employees on the front line are made part of the process, according to Randall Mott, vice president and chief information officer at Wal-Mart...