South Africa's Competition Commission approved Walmart's proposed acquisition of a 51% stake in Massmart, a South African firm that owns 265 wholesale and retail stores in South Africa and 25 more in 13 other African countries.
Carrefour, Wal-Mart's global archrival, beat Wal-Mart to South America, opening stores in Brazil in 1975, nearly two decades before Wal-Mart.
Now even with many dozens of stores dotting the south it still aims to provide the old time department store experience.
It would appear that the stores in the south of that great country have got themselves locked into a price war on a loss leader.
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Patrick Gural , a 35-year-old district manager overseeing 21 Albertsons (nyse: ABS - news - people ) stores in the south Dallas area, looks as if the skim milk in his cereal doesn't agree with his stomach.
Now, they have had eight straight quarters of declining same store sales in the United States of America, no store left in Germany, no stores left in South Korea, declining and flat sales in Mexico, losing market share in China and even closed the office in Russia from lack of interest.
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And the South Korean government recently released emergency stores of cabbage, pork, mackerel, radish and other staples.
It's something the retailer is especially concerned with as many of its stores are in the South, she says.
Even so, only about half of Brazil's 100 million pets have access to pre-packaged foods and pet stores, according PET South America, leaving plenty of room for future growth, which they predict will be in the double digits.
You can now find Borealis products in 2, 300 small grocery stores and bars as far south as Miami.
You can now find Borealis products in 2, 300 small grocery stores and bars as far south as Miami, Florida.
Today there are about 4981 stores that belong to Aldi North and 4504 stores that belong to Aldi South.
Shinsegae owns a string of department stores and the Starbucks chain in South Korea.
On a recent tour of Saks stores in Birmingham and Charleston, South Carolina, Martin stopped in every department to speak with salesclerks.
Today, Pepkor is a renowned South Africa-based retail investment holding company with stores in 10 countries in Africa, as well as operations in Australia and Poland.
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Wal-Mart intends to support plans laid out by Massmart, involving constructing 140 stores during the next three years within South Africa, and another ten elsewhere in the region.
Among the factors working in John Lewis' favour, Mr Bubb notes higher confidence of its middle-class customer base and the stronger recovery in London and the South East where the company has most of its stores.
Drive to the south and you see apartment buildings reaching skyward, surrounded by stores, small manufacturing operations and the occasional factory.
But they alone don't explain the proliferation of cafes serving single-origin coffee or the indie-minded designers selling their wares at stores such as Good Cho's in 44 South Village and Huashan's 1914 Connections.
Thor is making a big bet that the world's big-name stores and high-priced rents will continue to drift south on Fifth Avenue.
In May it also pulled out of South Korea, where it had a loss-making network of 16 stores.
South Carolina officials are working with community health workers, convenient care clinics at drug stores and other local community resources to reach out to people where they live and work to keep them as healthy as possible.
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With well-staged events in grocery stores and a television advertising barrage, Ms Tenenbaum has tried to convince South Carolinians that her rival wants them to pay 23% more at the shops (cleverly forgetting to add that such a tax would replace all other federal taxes).
These are not the Koreans who went to America to open grocery stores in the 1960s, but rather a breed of businesspeople who rode South Korea's economic boom of the 1980s and thought nothing of buying an apartment in or around New York, and planting a son or daughter there while they attended an Ivy League school.
When the South Korean economy picks up a bit, it plans to put its own name on the stores and develop the rest of the sites.
Having watched several of its peers make expensive mistakes trying to buy stores or going it alone, Britain's Tesco has begun its push into South Korea arm-in-arm with Samsung.
More pleasant than the chaotic St Marks Place one block south, East 9th between Second Ave and Avenue A is a good intro to the vintage stores and curio shops of the East Village.
Peppiatt said the first version of "Chinese Girl" was indeed believed to have been ruined -- possibly by one of his enemies on the South African art scene, a world which disapproved of his decision to sell paintings through department stores, rather than galleries.
He expects 200-300 stores in India within five years and also has booming markets in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Russia and South Africa.
Growing up in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb 20 minutes south of San Francisco, he spent weekends schlepping inventory among his parents' chain of local women's clothing stores--for no pay (he earned money cleaning cases for a jewelry store).
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