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Fortune: The Inside Story of Family Dollar’s Sale to Dollar Tree by Shawn Tully. “When (CEO Howard) Levine, 56, stepped out of the elevator into Icahn’s 11,000-square-foot duplex, he and fellow Family Dollar board member George Mahoney were escorted by a butler to the expansive balcony. There they found Icahn mixing a batch of […]
Wal-Mart to focus on food ‘upstreaming’ agenda by Kim Souza at The City Wire. “Earlier this month Wal-Mart quietly opened a sorting and culling operation in Los Angeles…Insiders at Wal-Mart said the new center in California is similar to an operation in McAllen, Texas…For instance if product can be purchased green and stored there […]
Tractor Supply Q1 Comp Sales +5.7% – Plan 110+ New Store Openings in FY ’15 “Comparable store transaction count increased 4.8% and average ticket increased 0.8%. The comparable store sales increase benefited from a solid performance in consumable, usable and edible (C.U.E.) products, including pet and heating consumables, while hardline products such as fencing, […]
First CEO of Sam’s Club shares lessons learned from Sam Walton by Kim Souza at The City Wire. “Sam was like a father to me. He coached my first baseball team and after I graduated from Bentonville High School I joined the military and spent four years in the service. After I came home […]
Target in Top 100 of Best Corporate Citizens at Corporate Responsibility Magazine See the Top 100 list …Top CEO’s of the Year: Larry Merlo from CVS “For us we saw (tobacco sales) as an obstacle to play a bigger role to healthcare delivery…You can imagine the spirited debate we had within the management […]
Lilly Pulitzer rush overwhelms Target’s website, quickly sells out at stores by Kavita Kumar at Star-Tribune. “At one point, Target made the site inaccessible for about 15 minutes in order to grapple with the traffic and avoid a full-blown crash…Target had hoped to make the Lilly Pulitzer collection available online by about 3 a.m., […]
J.D. Power Top Paint Retailers: Menards Beats Lowe’s & Home Depot See the retailer and brand rankings CNN: Walmart fired 2,200 to fix the plumbing by Katie Lobosco. “Everybody just panicked and started crying,” said Venanzi Luna, a manager of the deli department at the Pico Rivera, Calif. store.” Read more How Macy’s […]
Lowe’s CEO Niblock gets nearly 24% pay reduction in 2014 by Katherine Peralta at Charlotte Observer. “CEO Robert Niblock made $14.3 million in 2014, down from the $18.7 million he made in 2013, according to a securities filing this week…Niblock’s perks included $94,954 worth of personal use of the company’s aircraft, $6,406 for a […]