Big Box Retailers News

Coquitlam businessman Ken Plumb says consumers will see their grocery bills soar under new recycling rules.

Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said Tuesday that the retailer failed in three of its five main operating objectives last year - sales growth, leveraging its expenses and operating income growth.

Guest Blogger: David Fujimoto, third-year law student, University of San Francisco: House Democrats will decide whether to initiate a discharge petition to bring a vote on a comprehensive immigration reform bill to the floor.

"The United States is facing an industrial chemical safety crisis," Chemical Safety Board Chairperson Rafael Moure-Eraso told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 6th.

Apple Inc. has begun pressuring the major record companies to offer new releases exclusively through its iTunes store - a move that would initially block availability on streaming services such as Spotify or Beats Music, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The push to increase the federal minimum wage is gathering steam as the White House puts the issue front and center in the run-up to the fall elections.

Rep. Sanford shakes hands with Phil Rose, a commercial real estate broker who showed up to voice his opposition to the Bass Pro Shops deal.

The reason for the stock's drop was the sales release the business made public covering the month of February as well as results for the fiscal second quarter.

T Lost souls and doomed lovers make pilgrimages to a spot near the corner of South Main Avenue and West Cushing Street, not to pray for divine intervention, for there sure-as-shootin' is nothing holy about El Tiradito, but rather to wish upon a crumbling adobe monument devoted to what legend has it was an unrequited sinner.

At the same time, one non-event as well as one key comment might be the clearest indications of the company's potential over this time frame.

The state House voted Thursday to put a five-year lifetime cap on government-funded health -- but not for everyone.

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The Lethbridge mother of two, along with a local activist group, is protesting a proposal that would see several wells built in her neighbourhood, one of the fastest-growing parts of the southern prairie city.

Penske Truck Leasing broke a covenant that prevents retail sales at Jefferson County Corporate Park in the town of Watertown by operating an on-site store since January.

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We're once again caught up in a debate over the minimum wage. Although the wage has often been raised since it was first enacted in 1938, it was never indexed to inflation.

A few weeks after the Key Biscayne Village Council approved plans for a new Walgreens at the corner of Crandon Boulevard and Harbor Drive, hundreds of residents have signed a petition opposing the development and urging the property owner to change his decision.

Japanese retailer Aeon denied a newspaper report that it was in talks with India's Bharti Group to set up a retail joint venture in India, while France's Carrefour declined to comment on whether it was also talking to Bharti.

Los Angeles a As consumers display increased interest in owning movies digitally - a habit considered crucial to Hollywood's future - Walt Disney Studios has unveiled a service that is intended to make collecting its films easier.

Preservationists opposed to LG Electronics building a high-rise headquarters in Englewood Cliffs that would be visible above the Palisades are calling for a "day of action" on Saturday, urging consumers to take the plan into account when making purchases.