Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/5/13: Walmart good for America?; Target offends shoppers

  “Wal-Mart: Good For America?” at Seeking Alpha.  “A study done by Ken Stone and Georgeanne Artz called “Impact of The Wal-Mart Phenomenon on Rural Communities” compared small towns in Iowa with and without Wal-Marts to see if there was a significant impact on the economy. The study looked at 34 small towns in Iowa […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/4/13: What Dollar General could teach Apple; H.Depot’s “Spring Black Friday”

  “The Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday” at El Editor.  “The Home Depot, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, today announced it will implement its fourth annual Spring Black Friday event, a weekend of regional savings on hundreds of items to improve the home in preparation for spring starting April 4, 2013.”  Read more:  https://www.eleditor.com/noticiashispanicprwire/23987/spring-black-friday-marks-the-start-of-home-improvements-busiest-shopping-season […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/3/13: Walmart stalls in India; Walgreens sales up

    “Wal-Mart’s Path to Power in India Hits Its Limits: The Lawyers” by Megha Bahree at WSJ.  “Today, Wal-Mart’s advance on India is barely moving.  The company opened just five wholesale stores in the country last year—well below the 22 planned. This year, Wal-Mart plans to open eight locations, a person familiar with the […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/2/13: Target & Thrifty Canadians; What’s a gTLD?

  “Target Sets Sights on Thrifty Canadians” by Mark Hamstra at Supermarket News.  “In Canada, thrift is not a virtue that businesses may or may not choose to embrace — it is often ingrained as a core value.  To be fair, Canada’s economy was weaker then than it is now, imposing a tight-fisted mentality upon […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 4/1/13: Walmart Express “doing well”; Lowe’s April Fools

  “Will Dollar Stores Rule the Retail World?” by Christopher Matthews at Time.   “It’s difficult to see dollar stores maintaining their current growth rates for much longer. Walmart recently announced a plan to ramp up its efforts to build smaller Neighborhood Market outlets, which will be on average about one-third the size of its traditional […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 3/29/13: Costco & cheap prescriptions, Walmart closing 3 China stores

  “Wal-Mart closing three China stores” by Zhang Ye at Global Times.  “Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer by revenue, is planning to shut down three superstores in China in April, a move analysts said Wednesday is designed to cope with increasing labor costs and high rents in China.  The retailer has scheduled two […]