Some residents and business owners in Southeast Baltimore say they are monitoring the possible sale of a 19-acre former industrial plant on Eastern Avenue because the site could be the location for a new Wal-Mart.

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NEW YORK — Ka-ching! The cash register may be on its final sale. Stores across the country are ditching the old-fashioned, clunky machines and having salespeople — and even shoppers themselves — ring up sales on smartphones and tablet computers. ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has tapped Wal-Mart’s Sylvia Mathews Burwell as his next budget chief, thrusting her into the center of Washington’s heated partisan budget battles and is filling vacancies at the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency, an ...

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NEW YORK — As the fortunes of many Americans go, so goes Wal-Mart. The world’s largest retailer on Thursday reported an 8.6 percent rise in fourth quarter profit due to a smaller tax rate, but the company offered a tempered ...

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A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury assessed damages of $18.9 million against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for putting a new tire on an eroded rim — an action that led to the death of a woman and her two children.

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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has alerted its global suppliers that it will immediately drop them if they subcontract their work to factories that haven’t been authorized by the discounter. Wal-Mart’s stricter measure, along with other changes to its ...

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Up to 300 residential units may soon be added at the Hunt Valley Towne Centre in the space vacated when a Wal-Mart closed its doors in 2007, the developer confirmed Tuesday.

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NEW YORK — Why wait on Washington to fix the economy when there’s Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer and the nation’s biggest private employer with 1.4 million workers, said Tuesday that it is rolling out a three-part ...

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NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s CEO Mike Duke found out in 2005 that the retailer’s Mexico unit was handing out bribes to local officials, according to emails obtained by lawmakers. The emails contradict earlier claims by Wal-Mart senior executives ...

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NEW YORK — Target Corp. is pledging to match prices of select online rivals year-round, a move that underscores how physical and online retailing are being meshed together. Matching online prices is rare but expected to become more common as ...

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