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Walmart Open Call for Made in USA Products

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What:            Walmart Open Call for US Products
Where:          Bentonville, AR
When:            June 28, 2017
Who:              Companies that want to sell U.S. products to Walmart Read more

Walmart Outlines 2017 Goals for American Job Growth and Community Investment

Walmart Outlines Goals for American Job Growth and Community Investment

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34,000 jobs, training for over 225,000 associates and grants for innovation in textile manufacturing. Read more

Meet Company That Could Eventually Take Down Walmart

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Retail analysts say the world’s biggest retailer has reason to fear a small grocery chain that’s based in Idaho and boasts a business model that allows it to undercut Walmart on prices.

The Walmart Effect: Store Closures Are Leaving Food Deserts in Their Wake

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When and where Sam Walton’s Walmart opened, a slow hollowing out of the town square surely followed. When the Fairfield store opened in 1986, our town square was home to a clothing store, a small department store, a furniture store, a pharmacy, a jeweler, two hardware stores, and many others. As the county seat, Fairfield’s retailers not only supported its population of 10,000 but also residents of tiny neighboring towns, such as Salina and Libertyville, where only a few hundred people lived. Today, only one of those stores remains—a symptom of what’s come to be known as the Walmart effect. Read more

Walmart’s Customers Too Broke To Shop

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Walmart is facing a “perfect storm” that’s hurting its sales growth, according to Moody’s. Read more

Walmart: It Came, It Conquered, Now It’s Packing Up and Leaving

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The Town’n Country grocery in Oriental, North Carolina, a local fixture for 44 years, closed its doors in October after a Walmart store opened for business. Now, three months later — and less than two years after Walmart arrived — the retail giant is pulling up stakes, leaving the community with no grocery store and no pharmacy. Read more

Walmart to Shut Hundreds of Stores Across USA

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Walmart Stores Inc. plans to shutter 269 stores, the most in at least two decades, as it abandons its experimental small-format Express outlets and looks to streamline the chain. Read more

Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs, a Study Says

Study Says: Walmart Imports From China Displaced 400,000 Jobs

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Imports from China by Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and biggest importer, eliminated or displaced over 400,000 jobs in the United States between 2001 and 2013, according to an estimate by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive research group that has long targeted Walmart’s policies.

FTC Closes Probe of Walmart Over Misleading Made in USA Labels

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Wal-Mart is making a big deal out of the fact that much of its merchandise is “Made in the U.S.A.” The company is two years into a 10-year plan to spend some $250 billion more on products from U.S. factories and even hosts an annual summit on domestic manufacturing. Read more

Walmart’s Suppliers Are Finally Fighting Back

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After years of meeting demands for ever cheaper prices, many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suppliers are saying no to new margin-squeezing storage fees and a payment schedule that could delay for months how quickly some are paid. Read more