By David SchwartzPHOENIX (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc WMT plans to open its "Marketside" small-scale grocery stores in the Phoenix, Arizona area on October 4, setting up a showdown with rival Tesco Plc TSCO in the market for fresh groceries and prepared foods.In addition to convenience, Marketside will also convey...
Red Mountain Retail Group RMRG announcedtoday that four former drug store locations out of a seven drug storeportfolio purchased in 2007 will be the first in the United States to openas Wal-Mart's new Marketside neighborhood grocery store concept. The fourlocations in Arizona are in the cities of Gilbert, Mesa,...
MESA, ARIZ. -- As the world's largest retailer takes direct aim at competing restaurants in unflattering TV ads, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also is launching a new retail concept featuring prepared meals that the discount giant has projected could grow to a 1,000-location system. At least four Marketside stores...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reportedly sees its Marketside concept as having the potential to grow into a chain of more than 1,000 stores producing more than $10 billion in annual sales. That view comes from a job advertisement from the retailer's web site since pulled, according...
MARKETSIDE DEBUT: The first of Wal-Mart's small community grocery stores are slated to open this fall under the Marketside banner, starting with four locations in the Phoenix market. The company has also launched a web site for the stores (www.marketside.com), which promises that they will feature "a wide selection of...
Halfords has poached the supermarket veteran David Wild from Wal- Mart to be the chief executive of the car accessories-to-bike retailer and spearhead its growth in the UK and overseas. Mr Wild, who is currently senior vice-president for new business development at Wal-Mart,...
Tesco's US c-store arm Fresh & Easy will soon face direct competition from Wal-Mart and Safeway, with the two major retailers opening similarly-sized stores in the south west Wal-Mart is to open new smaller format 'Marketside'-branded stores in Arizona, one of the states Fresh & Easy trades in....
Wal-Mart Stores Inc will open small-format grocery stores in Arizona under the name "Marketside" to rival British retailer Tesco's Fresh & Easy markets. Reuters...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reportedly plans to test a small-format grocery store concept in Arizona. The stores will encompass about 20,000 square feet--less than half the size of Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market format-- according to an article published in the Financial Times. The article says that Wal-Mart...
BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS: Wal-Mart is to open small-format stores in Arizona in a bid to compete directly with Tesco's US convenience format Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market. The stores will operate under the fascia Marketside and will be roughly a 10th of the size of Wal-Mart Supercenters. Wal-Mart has secured leases...
FT Wal-Mart will open small-format grocery stores in Arizona this year under the name Marketside, according to the FT. The pilot stores are 20,000 sq It, a tenth of the size of Wal-Mart's standard stores, and will go head-to-head with Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets concept being...
Abstract-Meetings with analysts and investors are an important part of the investor relations process. I develop a two-dimensional dynamic model of investor relations and derive five research questions about investor relations with particular emphasis on investor relations meetings. To answer the questions I obtain data in 2002 from company managers...
By Matt Wickenheiser, Portland Press Herald, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 7--The Portland Public Market hopes to get a more family-friendly restaurant with lower-priced fare in to replace the Marketside Grill, which closed July 27. The...
Arkansas Cafe During the week, City workers come to this ramshackle market-side diner for a barbecue meat fix, American-style, from the ebullient Bubba Helberg. Come Sunday, when Spitalfields Market is in full swing, tables, church hall chairs and pews overflow into the market. The burgers (pounds...
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