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Walmart's New Health Food Push: Is It Too Hard to Swallow?
7:00AM 2/10/2012
By Alyce Lomax, The Motley Fool
Health Care, Safeway, Wal-Mart Stores, McDonald's, Whole Foods, Retail
Walmart, which has long been associated with cheap, high-calorie, low-nutrition foods, wants to get healthy: Its new "Great for You" initiative aims to show shoppers it can help them eat healthy on a budget. But can the retail tiger change its spots -- or it's rep?
Wal-Mart Debuts 'Great for You' Seal
10:40AM 2/07/2012
Wal-Mart Stores plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads "Great for You" to packaging of some of its house-brand foods. The green and white seal, which shows the stylized outline of a human figure with its arms spread toward the sky, is part of a multiyear campaign the world's largest retailer is undertaking to promote healthier products and fight childhood obesity.
The 10 U.S. Companies That Will Be Most Profitable in 2012
8:30AM 1/19/2012
Investing, Earnings, JP Morgan Chase, IBM, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, AT&T, Wal-Mart Stores, Stock Picks, Wells Fargo & Co, Procter & Gamble, Chevron
Each January, 24/7 Wall St. makes its predictions about which publicly traded U.S. companies it feels will have the highest profits in the year ahead. Read on, and find out which of the Fortune 500 will rake in the biggest fortunes.
Walmart Announces New Holiday Price-Matching Strategy
7:30AM 10/24/2011
The world's largest retailer said Monday that it will match prices on all its products for the holidays - even after the purchases are made. Learn more about how the plan will work and what you'll need to qualify.
Walmart Woos Women With Initiatives to Support Female-Owned Businesses
4:15PM 9/14/2011
Walmart has announced a new initiative aimed at investing in women-driven enterprises. The chain's plans include supporting training programs, donating to entities that aid female-focused economic development, and patronizing women-owned businesses. But coming as it does on the heels on a massive (failed) class action lawsuit, can this initiative be taken at face-value?
This holiday season, layaway is making a comeback at several large retailers. Layaway is the process of buying an item which you leave at the store and pay for over time, often with a one-time service charge but no credit check. It's not a perfect system, but here's why it beats those "no interest/no payments for X months" deals hands-down.
Walmart is bringing back something its customers have been asking for since the Great Recession: layaway. The world's largest retailer, which ditched the pay-as-you-go plans in 2006, is rolling out a holiday layaway option from Oct. 17 through Dec. 16.
Recall Roundup: Fisher-Price Wagons, Beef, Strollers and More
5:30PM 7/29/2011
Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge for any consumer, so Consumer Ally has collected them all in one place for you to check each week.
Here is this week's roundup:
Fisher-Price recalls 210,800 Little People Builders' Load 'n Go Wagons in the United States...
Netflix Faces Challenges From Blockbuster, Walmart
8:45AM 7/28/2011
Call it opportunism, playing to weakness, or just marketing to pissed-off people: Targeting your competitor's customers after an unpopular move, one like that made by Netflix earlier this month, is kind of a no-brainer.
NPR's Marketplace Tuesday called it "anger marketing." And Blockbuster knows...
Walmart Warns Shoppers of Recalled Papayas
4:00PM 7/25/2011
healthcare, Biz Brief, Consumer Ally, Food, Recalls, Recalls
Walmart recently warned its shoppers about papayas sold in its stores after the fresh fruit was possibly linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 97 people in 23 states and is currently under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Walmart posted the recall from...
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