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Long before it was fashionable, Wal-Mart pushed responsibility and information to the lowest ranks. Managers of departments such as sporting goods or women's apparel still get detailed reports of sales and profits in their areas, and they have a say in which products are stocked. Store managers can still buy locally and ask headquarters to adjust inventory of company brands that it has asked them to stock. Coughlin says Wal-Mart will not stray far from the locals-know-best model, even as more information and merchandise flows through Bentonville. At headquarters, management focuses...
...networks doesn't work as well in Europe and Asia, where the highway systems aren't as good and stores typically are smaller. So Wal-Mart has to become better at buying, reaching further back into the supply chain to purchase at the factory such products as hardware and apparel that it now obtains from outside vendors and importers. "We realized that, as we continue to expand internationally, the need to leverage international and domestic buying power was key, and the only way to do it effectively is to do it ourselves," says Ken Eaton, who heads global procurement...
...traffic is not all one way. ASDA's George brand of apparel is one of the most popular private-label lines in Britain, and Wal-Mart recently launched it in the U.S. "We're selling apparel anyway," says Claire Watts, Wal-Mart's fashion boss. "Would it kill us to be a little more up to date?" Designers from ASDA and from Wal-Mart headquarters now go on trend-spotting trips together, an exercise associated more with hip brands like Nike, and one that sounds perilously outside Wal-Mart's core competency. Watts insists that her group isn't trying...
...advice of most travel experts boils down to two words: Ziploc bags. If you don't want a TSA employee handling your intimate apparel and your toothbrush, put them in a sealable clear plastic bag. The fastidious may want to put everything--individually--in clear plastic bags. And those who value their belongings need to make a complete list of items and their value, because the TSA does not yet have a formal policy for handling claims of damage or theft, although it does have a complaint line...
...word-of-mouth marketing, is the envy of the industry. "It's not so much marketing pizazz as the performance of the product" that accounts for its success, says Mike May, a spokesman for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association International. Under Armour "was one of the most requested apparel items for Christmas gifts for all genders and ages," says Kevin O'Dell, assistant manager of Galyan's sporting goods in Gaithersburg, Md. "When Nike came out, it was all about the swoosh. Now it's Under Armour. If you watch any interview in a locker room, they're wearing Under...