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  • Target fires back in holiday toy competition

    Target this week entered the seasonal fray dominated so far by Walmart and Toys "R" Us attempting to outdo one another with announcements about their layaway offers, product reservation programs and top toy lists.

  • Wal-Mart sued yet again for alleged gender discrimination

    Nashville, Tenn. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is facing its third regional gender bias lawsuit since the Supreme Court rejected a nationwide class action filed by female workers in California and Texas.

    Three female employees sued Wal-Mart in federal court in Tennessee on Tuesday, claiming discrimination against female workers in the company’s Region 43 which consists of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi.

  • Walmart launches prepaid card reload program

    Bentonville, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores said Tuesday that it is launching a new service called Rapid Reload, which allows customers to load money onto prepaid cards.

    The service is affiliated with Green Dot Network, InComm's Vanilla Reload Network and First Data's Money Network.

    For a fee of $3.74, the program allows customers, effective immediately, to add money to their card at a store register.

  • Walmart eases way to reload prepaid cards

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart is offering its customers a new way to load money onto prepaid cards.

  • Is 50,000 more employees enough?

    The holiday season is competitive on many fronts, including which retailer plans to hire the most seasonal workers.

  • Spoiler alert: Walmart’s prices lowest to varying degrees

    Pricing studies conducted this week by Wall Street analysts yielded familiar results.

    Deutsche Bank analyst Charles Grom and Citigroup analyst Deb Weinswig issued reports this week comparing Walmart’s prices to dollar stores and conventional supermarkets and Target.

  • New insight into the world of supplier audits

    Corporate governance is a familiar topic, especially to Walmart and its suppliers, but the concept of supply chain governance is less well understood.

    A global leader in the space, MetricStream, aims to change that. In a nutshell, the frim explains that supply chain governance is about helping organizations streamline and manage their supplier quality and performance while also identifying, mitigating and managing supplier risks for key procurement and manufacturing process.

  • Fear not, Halloween sales won’t be scary

    The outlook for Christmas spending is decent and Halloween is supposed to be pretty good too.

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