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All three major U.S. stock indexes bounced back from four days of losses Friday as investors cheered a better-than expected November jobs report.

The 9,000 sq ft store Mannington Retail Park will sell more than 4,500 quality food and drink lines, including fresh produce, meats, beers, wines and spirits.

A "Long March" for a living wage took 100-plus hearty demonstrators from a hotel at SeaTac to Seattle City Hall on Thursday, coinciding with a national day of action in which fast-food workers marched off the job in 100 cities across America.

I like to think I've been in more Walmart stores in more places than anyone who doesn't work for Walmart, or one of its suppliers.

We love brands, right? We marvel at the most successful, and feel genuine sorrow for previously loved brands that disappear.

A convergence of 3 stories broke last week and have prompted me to think about them in a totality as opposed to the singular impact of each happening.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray cut a ceremonial ribbon Wednesday morning marking the opening of the first Wal-Mart in the District alongside one of the principal challengers for his job next year.

Chicago, IL December 04, 2013 On Monday, the United States Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal by Amazon and Overstock - two of the world's largest online retailers - of a New York court decision that upheld the state's 2008 law requiring the collection of taxes for online purchases.

Winnipeg officials wanted to bring the CentrePort lands that lie within the RM of Rosser into the city but the Selinger government wouldn't allow it.

There has been a lot of regulatory activity since the FCC adopted its revised White Spaces rules in 2010, but not much marketplace activity.

NOT HAPPY: Robert Scott and John Kerr want a plan for a new retail development at Stonefields that will work for residents as well as developers.

One of three plans for Walmart neighborhood market stores in Rock Hill got the go-ahead vote from a city panel Tuesday night.

The double whammy of the massive construction work on Lake Cook Road coupled with the reduced occupancy of the Deerbrook Mall took its toll on Deerfield's sales tax revenue in July, according to a report by Finance Director Eric Burk at Monday's Village Board of Trustees meeting.

The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to increase the District of Columbia's minimum wage to $11.50 an hour, one of the nation's highest.

Though some people opposed stores opening on the holiday, it wasn't evident at 9:30 p.m. at the shopping center at Interstate 35 W and Heritage Trace Parkway.

Defying the nation's top employer and a business model that defines the new U.S. economy, Wal-Mart employees and allies will try to oust shopping headlines with strike stories, and throw a retail giant off its heels on what should be its happiest day of the year.

The District of Columbia is set Tuesday to become the latest local government to move to raise the minimum wage.

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The D.C. Council began the year by trying to pass a minimum wage hike intended to bring to Walmart to heel.

Forget, for the moment, that he is the pope, and that Holy Father Francis' apostolic exhortation last week was addressed "to the bishops, clergy, consecrated persons and the lay faithful."