The company tried to get around the ban by buying copies of new releases at places like Wal-Mart to stock kiosks but recently that became more difficult when Wal-Mart allegedly stopped allowing individuals to buy more than three copies of any DVD title.
But, when Wal-Mart de Mexico started construction locals launched a loud campaign of opposition.
Indeed, when Wal-Mart set its sights on Japan last year, it followed its Mexican strategy.
When Wal-Mart first announced its intentions to launch a presence in India back in 2006, many onlookers said they were crazy.
The weakened market comes at a time when Wal-Mart works to rejuvenate its brand via improved lighting, nicer displays, and wider aisles.
Wright, a Memphis resident, believed passionately in the concept, but even she was amazed when Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, summoned her to its headquarters.
That was when Wal-Mart got into some hot water with regulators.
In 1953, when Wal-Mart was hardly a chainlette, he put the business into a family limited partnership and gave shares (then worth very little) to his kids.
In 2003, when the Wal-Mart litigation was in its preliminary court stages, about 27, 000 sex discrimination claims nationwide were resolved administratively by the EEOC, little changed from the prior decade.
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On a similar note, in this era of non-conspicuous consumption, when Target and Wal-Mart have become brand badges for those who can afford Saks and Neiman-Marcus, companies that represent prestige brands are going to have to work extra hard to make sure that the entire experience of the brand is worth its weighty title and price tag.
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NEA's obsession with Wal-Mart reached bottom last week when the union participated in a national "back to school boycott" against Wal-Mart.
And the threat from Wal-Mart when it really gets going on the web?
When 250, 000 Wal-Mart shoppers in one day took a cholesterol test offered by the company in 2004, Golinkin decided to change the company's business.
But Wright's confidence wilted when she got to Wal-Mart's reception area.
Customers are forced into a compromise when they shop at Wal-Mart.
"Traditionally, when you went to Wal-Mart, the exercise was to hold your nose for about 45 seconds while you ran around and got what you needed, " Husson says.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals authorized the suit to proceed, but it excluded from the class women who no longer worked for Wal-Mart when the original suit was filed in 2001, reducing the number covered.
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We also remand with respect to the claims of putative class members who no longer worked for Wal-Mart when the complaint was filed so that the district court may consider whether to certify an additional class or classes under Rule 23(b)(3).
The Wal-Mart screeds contain the usual union twaddle about the hell that happens when individuals choose freely, whether that's working at Wal-Mart or sending the kids off to private school.
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Wal Mart had a time when it was a truly great retailer.
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It's earned through innovation and discipline, the traits experts point to when explaining the meteoric rise of Wal-Mart from country store to controversial retailing behemoth.
But Wal-Mart was stymied recently when it tried to reduce costs by buying a tiny industrial bank.
Wal-Mart drivers were greeted as heroes when their trucks reached the disaster areas days before government relief efforts.
And, you know, when companies like Toys 'R' Us and Wal-Mart individually decide we're just going to ban these on our own, we're going to be able to find safer products that aren't a risk to kids, little babies with rubber duckies, I think it's time for the American government to get onboard.
They felt humiliated, they said, when security people followed them around the aisles in the Wal-Mart.
This week for the first time, Wal-Mart will list maternity under services available when customers search specific stores.
For too long now customers thanks to Wal-Mart think they are always right, when that is not the case.
I'd been rummaging around for a decent battery pack for a while when this caught my eye at the edge of the Wal-Mart checkout line.
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What's more, when heavily unionized supermarkets are removed from the equation, Wal-Mart's employee-benefit costs barely differ from retail competitors, according to a Boston Consulting Group study.
The Supreme Court agreed to wade into some of the biggest and most contentious issues facing corporations today when it accepted appeals of a massive discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores and a lawsuit by states seeking to control utility carbon dioxide emissions.
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