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A technician demonstrates procedures in a mobile food testing vehicle that will be used by Walmart to test food from their suppliers at the China International Food Safety Technology & Innovations Expo in Beijing on June 18, 2013. China has recently been hit by a string of food scandals including one selling rat and fox meat as beef and mutton and others selling recycled cooking oil to restaurants and using dangerous chemicals in baby milk powder.
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We truly believe it will adversely affect our neighborhood, property values and our way of life there ... Since this time of Walmart opening, we’ve had two occasions where all the mail has been stolen out of mailboxes — crime is already on the rise.
A prune-shipping place, the soldiers marching on Reserve Street, the rifle range right downtown. All things faded away. The huge air raid siren on top of the courthouse. Camera shops vanished. Printers vanished. Things changed. Costco and Walmart. Technology changed. The way we shop changed. It's not bad or good. Some things are gone, and that's good.
I need to go to Walmart right now. My dog is at Walmart.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Wal-Mart aims to perk up produce sections
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is working to keep its produce aisles fresh, announced steps to improve the quality of its fresh fruits and vegetables.The nation's largest grocer and retailer said Monday that it is making more changes in its operations, trai Read more »
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Walmart in $81.6M toxic waste settlement
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $81.6 million after pleading guilty Tuesday to criminal charges of improperly disposing of fertilizer, pesticides and other hazardous products that were pulled from stores in California and Missouri because of damaged packag Read more »
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Opinion: Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue
If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies - including Benetton, PVH, Abercrombie & Fitch , H&M; , Inditex (Zara), Marks & Spencer Read more »
Around the web
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WHAT TO WEAR: Errands
of it. You still need to look presentable. No, you may not wear your pajamas and bunny slippers to the grocery store or Walmart. Whether you like it or not, when you are out in public there are opportunities everywhere to meet people and make an impression. 3:10 AM from College Fashionista Read more »
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School embezzler kills self, police say
checks from Tippecanoe Valley School Corp. written by Adamson for Adamson. He also found a receipt for personal items from Walmart that included $303.91 in charges to the school corporations credit card, the sheriffs department said. On Jan. 5, the officer 3:02 AM from The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Read more »
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Park Poised At No. 1
majors of a season when she plays in the U.S. Women’s Open at Southampton, NY. But first Park’s focus is on this week’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, where she’s enjoyed a good deal of success in the past. She finished tied for fourth at Pinnacle Country 2:55 AM from Arkansas Online Read more »
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The Importance of Strategic Initiatives
as Target over the last ten years. According to "Wal-Mart's Strategic Initiatives" (2013), by implementing Project Impact Wal-Mart is renovating its stores in the US by widening the aisles, lowering fixtures, improving signage, and adding natural light to 1:31 AM from Term Paper Warehouse Read more »
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Ellisville gives tentative approval to bond issue for Walmart
• Mayor Adam Paul is making good on his promise to fight a Walmart project until the day the doors to the store open. At an Ellisville City Council meeting on Wednesday, that pledge put him in a heated debate in front of 70 people with Jim Sansone, of the 1:04 AM from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Read more »
