Wal-Mart fight heats up in California
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While cities challenge expansion plans, the retail giant touts benefits.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N sent  an open letter to California residents on Thursday, hoping it  will help the world's largest retailer  overcome resistance to  its plans for expansion in that state.
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Presidential candidates are making an early and furious run at voters in delegate-rich California.
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Holiday shoppers will see a clearly defined battle line this Black Friday: Wal-Mart on one side, everybody else on the other.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, plans to open as many as 15 new stores in China next year, competing for a foothold with Carrefour SA and Metro Group as the government lifts curbs on foreign retailers.
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Shoppers wait their turn in frigid wind-chill temperatures to enter Wal-Mart in Hamburg, NY, Friday, Nov. 26, 2004. Bargain shoppers woke up before dawn to head for the nation&#39;s malls and stores Friday, the
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates against black employees seeking work as truck drivers, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest private employer, must face a class-action lawsuit alleging female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in  a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates  against black employees seeking work as truck drivers,  according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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Residents of a Los Angeles suburb  are suing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and their city government in a  bid to stop the world's largest retailer from opening a store  in their area.
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By Sandra Jones and Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 22--In an aggressive move to win over consumers that also threatens to shake up the $250 billion pharmaceutical business, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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World&#39;s No.1 retailer makes half-million dollar contribution to help defeat a state ballot measure. LOS ANGELES  - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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California Gov. Arnold  Schwarzenegger and lawmakers prepared for battle on Thursday  over his ambitions to restrain state spending and avoid tax  increases in a budget proposal due next week.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI  - Executives from U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  took a first look at Indian stores on Thursday as they discuss a tie-up with Bharti Entreprises that could revolutionize the country's $300 billion retail industry. Over 100 protesters waving banners and shouting slogans marched on government buildings in New Delhi. Some broke through police barricades and burned an effigy representing Wal-Mart.
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California has emerged as a key  battleground state on the issue of pension overhaul, with Gov.  Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing private accounts for state  employees and lower government contributions to public pension  plans that provide defined benefits.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is going on  the offensive against detractors in a campaign to deliver "the  unfiltered truth" about the world's largest retailer, Chief  Executive Officer Lee Scott said in an interview published on  Thursday.
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In the debate over what to do about the growing number of working people in the United States with little or no health insurance, no company may be taking more heat than the country&#39;s largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.