Stories tagged with "wal mart stores"

For retailers, surge in sales is sweet news by indystar

NEW YORK — Shoppers returned to the nation’s malls last month, buying a surprising amount of spring clothing and other items and helping stores post the strongest... – Mar 05, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Stocks rise on jobs report hopes by indystar

NEW YORK — Optimism about the government’s February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010. Stocks ended Thursday with a moderate... – Mar 05, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Business

Renovation is launched at Eastside Walmart by indystar

Indianapolis — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the biggest private employer in Indiana, is continuing an aggressive multistore remodeling effort with a makeover of the store at 10617... – Mar 03, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Business

Report: Blackstone may join Simon in bid by indystar

Indianapolis — Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, may join Simon Property Group’s bid to buy bankrupt General Growth Properties,... – Feb 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Report: Consumers spent modestly in January by indystar

Americans backed off from holiday spending in January, but retail sales rose for a third month in a row compared with a year earlier, largely because of gas price hikes, according... – Feb 10, 2010 at 8:10 AM in Business

Wal-Mart cuts about 11,200 Sam's Club staffers by indystar

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam’s Club warehouses as it turns over the task of in-store product demonstrations to an outside marketing company. The... – Jan 25, 2010 at 8:41 AM in Business

Web now set to alter retail landscape by indystar

Chains are taking cues from holiday trend, frugal shoppers The battle for the shrinking American budget is moving online this year with a vengeance. While the recession took its... – Jan 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Online pact puts man's computers in national light by Daniel Lee

Tonee Bell, owner of A Unity System Computers, a startup manufacturer of desktops and laptops, is a man who loves to tick off significant dates from his life. 1933 is the year his... – Dec 21, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Business

Greenhouse plan eyes power plant's excess heat by indystar

West Lafayette — A Purdue University scientist hopes to build a special greenhouse that will grow vegetables in the Indiana winter by tapping into excess heat produced by a... – Dec 21, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Communities

Shoppers pile on the bargains by Erika Smith

Hoosiers, full off of their Thanksgiving feast, stood in line for hours this morning to snap up toys, clothes and electronics at deeply discounted prices. Tempers flared at two... – Nov 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Retailers make deals, profits by indystar

Target, Saks, TJX report strong third-quarter sales CHICAGO — Deal-craving shoppers helped three prominent U.S. retailers report Tuesday that their third quarter managed to... – Nov 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Energy supplies up, stock prices down by indystar

NEW YORK — A jump in the nation’s energy inventories sent stocks falling Thursday as investors worried that demand for oil and gasoline is falling because of the... – Nov 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Business

Wal-Mart posts 3% rise in profit for 3Q by indystar

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., one of the top employers in Indiana, today reported a 3.2 percent increase in third-quarter profit, helped by inventory controls and other cost-cutting... – Nov 12, 2009 at 8:08 AM in Business

Meijer enters holiday toy-pricing war by indystar

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — There are sales and then there are price cuts. Meijer says it is offering more of each this holiday season. And in doing so, the Midwest retailer plans to... – Nov 05, 2009 at 12:08 PM in Business

Indiana joins campaign to ID kids for safety by indystar

Governor announces effort to distribute info kits in case kids go missing INDIANAPOLIS — More than 162,000 child identification kits will be distributed to Indiana... – Oct 07, 2009 at 12:00 AM in News

They're the deals of a lifetime by indystar

Retailers cope with economy’s ‘new normal’ by slashing prices There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. The Great Recession has... – Oct 05, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Business

Settlement with Hoosiers OK'd by Erika Smith

Walmart, Sam’s Club workers from ’94 to March of this year are set to share up to $28M Nearly 300,000 Wal-Mart Stores workers in Indiana and their attorneys could... – Sep 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM in Retail/Real Estate

Wal-Mart to upgrade 5 Indy-area stores by Jeff Swiatek

Locations among initial wave of updates planned for 70 of chain over 5 years% Five Indianapolis-area Wal-Mart stores will be among the first to be remodeled under the... – Jul 10, 2009 at 2:00 AM in Retail/Real Estate

Indiana now up to 6 companies in Fortune 500 by Tom Spalding

Indiana regained some prestige in the annual listing of the top revenue-producing companies. Fort Wayne-based Steel Dynamics and Indianapolis-based Brightpoint joined stalwarts... – Apr 20, 2009 at 9:46 AM in Business

Exxon Mobil moves to top of Fortune 500 by indystar

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil has unseated Wal-Mart Stores to top the 2009 Fortune 500 list after a year the magazine called the worst ever for the country’s 500 largest publicly traded... – Apr 19, 2009 at 3:10 PM in Business