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...into the arms of its competitors, who were willing to compete aggressively with the retailer on price. "Suppliers don't care about going to war with Walmart because they've been stiffed by its new procurement practices," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director of Strategic Resources Group, "and they know they'll be treated fairly at the other stores." (See how Americans are spending...
...example, Flickinger's research shows that at a group of WinCo Foods stores in California, the Western grocery chain carried 34 different sizes of detergent brands like Sun, Arm & Hammer, Surf and Gain. Neighboring Walmarts only carried 10 of these sizes. Further, of the 10 brand packages both stores sold, WinCo was cheaper on five of them. Two carried the same price, and Walmart offered better prices on three of the detergent packages. Of the 32 different sizes of Kellogg's cereal brands offered by WinCo, Walmart carried just seven. Of the brands both stores sold, WinCo was cheaper...
...floor sail-shaped Trump Ocean Club, under construction in Panama City's exclusive Punta Pacifica district, will be the largest and most expensive building ever built south of the Rio Grande. "Nothing like this has ever been attempted in Latin America," says head developer Roger Khafif, whose K Group construction firm is handling the $400 million project. "When you think of Sydney you think of the Opera House, when think of Paris you think of the Eiffel Tower, and when you think of Panama, you are going to think of this building...
...wear, were supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and has fled the country rather than serve a prison term on a corruption conviction. His opponents include the current Democrat-led government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the military, a rival group of protesters known as the Yellow Shirts and, according to some, Thailand's monarchy. Thaksin's followers are comprised largely of the rural poor, and so it was easy to dismiss, as many commentators did, the bloody curse as a desperate act by uneducated farmers. But in Thailand, despite modern...
...afterwards performed ceremonies with them in Bangkok to further increase their power. "In the last two successful coups in 1991 and 2006,'' says Craig Reynolds, a professor of Thai history at Australian National University, "the astrologer who advised the chief coup planner became the astrologer for the coup group once it had assumed power...