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Global sourcing can provide the ammunition Wal-Mart will need to wage price wars against such powerful retailers as France's Carrefour, Holland's Royal Ahold and Germany's Makro. Each of these European companies got to foreign markets long before Wal-Mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Wal-Mart Get Any Bigger? | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...thought it was really impressive for a junior to step up and grab ahold of the team,” Smith said...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capouch Leads With a Firm, Quiet Hand | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...largest online supermarket left standing--Peapod.com serving New England and Chicago--is now owned by the $65 billion Dutch mega-chain Royal Ahold. Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989. It expects to be fully profitable by 2003, partly because it curtailed its early ambitions. "We got too big," says Marc van Gelder, a former Ahold executive who is Peapod's ceo. "Now we're staying east of the Mississippi"--and binding the company tightly to Ahold-owned stores and distribution centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Grocers Check Out | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...salary and our masters sell ads. And if a reader likes a TIME.com column enough to pass copies around to all their friends, heck - none of us bats an eye. The more the merrier is the name of the game - we don't care how readers get ahold of the stuff, as long as you remember our name and look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of the Line for Royalties? | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...just took ahold of himself and went to [urinal] one," Helgen said. "He braved the arctic cold, so to speak. I think every guy understands that there are these rules to adhere to in the men's room...

Author: By William P. Bohlen and Mary C. Cardinale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pupils or Primates? | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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