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Statistics from the American Booksellers Association bolster his--and Ross's --argument that there is still room for small independents among Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon and even Wal-Mart and Costco. The group's membership is down from 4,700 a decade ago but has remained stable at 2,000 for the past three years. And while book sales overall have remained static for the past two years, Ipsos BookTrends reports slight growth for independent bookstores--just over 2% since...
...Number of days' notice the U.S. Labor Department agreed to give Wal-Mart stores before inspecting for child-labor violations, a move criticized by Labor's inspector general...
...Amount the settlement--sparked by 85 violations--made Wal-Mart pay, without an admission of wrongdoing...
...doctor doing battle with Africa's AIDS epidemic, you can't be a snob about where you get your next good idea. Ernest Darkoh got one of his best ideas from Wal-Mart...
...sooner had he got them going than the whole system began to buckle under the sheer crush of patients--particularly extremely ill ones, who required so much care that they left doctors unable to help healthier people. To fix that, Darkoh turned to checkout-line models that Wal-Mart helped pioneer, instituting what amounted to an express lane for people in need of just testing or medication and a slow lane for the gravely...