As if we didn't have enough problems: Food-related protests have been occurring worldwide, and in the U.S. now major discounters are seeing runs on products, particularly rice, as both Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. operated discounter, and Costco Wholesale Corp. have seen shelves cleaned out ...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2007 Fortune Global 500.[4] Founded by Sam Walton in 1962, it was incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972

Retail giant Wal-Mart (Wal-Mart Stores) increased first-quarter results expected to largely offset by the news of retail sales in March the negative ... to the diminution in value of fund assets, Lehman Brothers, the three of its investment funds

CNBC - TOKYO - Wal-Mart Stores will buy the rest of Japanese chain Seiyu as the U.S. retail giant seeks the flexibility it says it needs to turn around the money-losing supermarket operator. Seiyu, Japan's fifth-biggest retailer by sales, said shareholders ...

Stocks were poised to extend declines Thursday after weak sales from Wal-Mart Stores and disappointing guidance from tech bellwether Cisco Systems