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Walmart Leads Amazon in Online Grocery Shopping

Posted: April 18, 2018 at 9:10 am

Online sales of food and beverages will amount to just 2.4% of total 2018 sales that should approach $1 trillion. That's a prize approaching $23 billion. The total U.S. grocery ...
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Kroger Gambles Customer Service Can Save It

Posted: April 11, 2018 at 6:35 am

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) has announced it will add 11,000 new workers. Most of the additions are to improve customer service at the store level. Whether this is what customers ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: April 11, 2018 at 5:15 am

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg would not say if he is willing to support regulation of the company he founded as he testified before Congress. According to Reuters: ...
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Kroger Looks to Expand Its Workforce

Posted: April 10, 2018 at 10:35 am

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) shares were up marginally early Tuesday following the announcement that the grocery chain would be expanding its workforce. Specifically, Kroger said that its family of stores ...
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Walmart Continues to Struggle as Market Rejects Strategy

Posted: April 8, 2018 at 7:37 am

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT), the world's largest retailer, cannot get traction with shareholders. Despite deep troubles with its primary rival, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), it has not been able to ...
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BlackRock to Exclude Gun Purveyors From Funds

Posted: April 6, 2018 at 9:55 am

In early March, asset management firm BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) began asking gunmakers and distributors how they were going to respond to the killing of 17 students and faculty at ...
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10 Companies That Would Love It If President Trump Goes After Amazon

Posted: March 28, 2018 at 11:50 am

Is it possible that the high and mighty Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) might have finally become so big and powerful that politicians actually go after the company where it hurts ...
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Does a Target, Kroger Merger Make Sense?

Posted: March 23, 2018 at 10:15 am

In an exclusive report published Friday morning, Fast Company cited people familiar with the matter who said that Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) and Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) are discussing a ...
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In Challenge to Amazon, Walmart Will Deliver Groceries in Over 100 Cities

Posted: March 14, 2018 at 5:17 am

Game on. Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) will deliver groceries in 100 cites as a challenge to Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its Whole Foods operation. The decision will also create ...
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Walmart and Sears Get Lowest Customer Satisfaction Ratings

Posted: March 12, 2018 at 2:00 pm

The recently published 2017 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) for retail stores and websites shows that customer satisfaction is down slightly overall from a record high posted in 2016. The ...
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Thursday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: March 8, 2018 at 4:09 pm

March 7, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.4% at 2,738.94. The DJIA closed up 0.4% at 24,894.24. Separately, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% at 7,427.95. Thursday ended up a ...
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Are Kroger Earnings Really to Blame?

Posted: March 8, 2018 at 8:40 am

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) released its most recent quarterly results on Thursday before the markets opened. Investors reacted, not necessarily to earnings, by sending Kroger's shares lower. Chief Financial Officer ...
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Target, Costco and More Big Earnings Coming This Week

Posted: March 4, 2018 at 10:25 am

In the past week, markets took another plunge, partially as the result of a sharp increase in volatility. Perhaps the main driver last Thursday was the steel and aluminum tariffs ...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today

Posted: February 6, 2018 at 4:58 am

At 5 a.m. Eastern Time, Dow futures were slightly higher after a 1,130 drop yesterday. As a trial between Uber and Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) self-driving car company Waymo began, ...
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Kroger’s Turnaround Brings in $2.15 Billion for Sale of Convenience Store Operations

Posted: February 5, 2018 at 11:30 am

Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) has been doing what it can to regain lost ground for shareholders over the past year. As its shares have recovered, much of the Amazon-Whole Foods ...
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